FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2001

Media General Promotes King To Publisher of the Hickory Daily Record

HICKORY, N.C. — Media General's Publishing Division has promoted David King to publisher of the Hickory Daily Record. Earlier this year he was promoted to regional marketing director for Media General's North Carolina Community Newspapers, a group of newspapers in western North Carolina that includes the Daily Record.

King served as advertising director of the Daily Record for about one year, and before that he was publisher of four weeklies owned by Media General in Central Virginia. A graduate of Virginia Tech, King began his career with the company as a retail advertising salesman at The Daily Progress in Charlottesville, Va. He later served as general manager of the Culpeper News.

"David has been highly successful throughout his career with Media General," said Jeff Heard, vice president of Media General's North Carolina Community Newspapers. "I am confident that he will be an outstanding publisher for the Hickory Daily Record."

About Media General
Media General (NYSE:MEG) is an independent 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.