FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2001

Media General Promotes King and Menscer to Regional Sales and Marketing Positions

HICKORY, N.C. — Media General's North Carolina Community Newspaper Group has promoted David King to regional marketing director and Dwaine Menscer to regional advertising director. Both positions are newly created as part of the company's regional sales and marketing strategy.

King has been advertising director of the Hickory Daily Record for the past year. Before that, he was publisher of four weekly newspapers in Media General's Central Virginia Weekly Group in Orange, Va. King previously served as a retail salesman and retail manager at The Daily Progress in Charlottesville, Va. He is a graduate of Virginia Tech.

Menscer has served as advertising director of the Statesville Record & Landmark since 1994. Prior to then, he was publisher of the Observer News Enterprise in Newton, N.C. Before entering the newspaper business, Menscer worked for 20 years in retail merchandising and marketing. He attended Mitchell Community College.

"Both David and Dwaine bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to their new positions," said Jeff Heard, vice president for Media General North Carolina. "We are delighted to have them assume these key leadership roles for our group of newspapers in western North Carolina."

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. Media General'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 weeklies and 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. Media General's extensive Internet offerings include more than 50 online enterprises.