FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, April 26, 2001

Lapkin Named Controller of Interactive Media Division

RICHMOND, Va. — Media General's Interactive Media Division has named Glenn J. Lapkin as its controller. Lapkin is currently director of accounting in the company's Publishing Division.

"Glenn is ideally suited for this new position," said Neal Fondren, president of the Interactive Media Division, which Media General launched on Jan. 1. "In addition to his divisional accounting experience and expertise, as well as his broad knowledge of the company, we will benefit from Glenn's innovative ideas and his sharp focus on profitability."

Before joining Media General in 1997, Lapkin was assistant treasurer and director of financial systems for RF&P Corp., a real estate investment trust headquartered in Richmond.

Lapkin is a 1982 accounting graduate of the College of William and Mary.

About Media General
Media General is an independent, publicly owned communications company situated primarily in the Southeast with interests in newspapers, television stations, interactive media and diversified information services. The company's publishing assets include The Tampa Tribune, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Winston-Salem Journal and 22 other daily newspapers in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Alabama and South Carolina, as well as nearly 100 other periodicals and a 20 percent interest in The Denver Post. Media General's 26 network-affiliated television stations reach more than 30 percent of the television households in the Southeast, and nearly 8 percent of those in the United States. The company's extensive interactive media offerings include more than 50 online enterprises. Media General also has a 33 percent interest in SP Newsprint Co., which operates newsprint mills in Dublin, Ga., and Newberg, Ore.