FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, May 3, 2001

Sumers Named Human Resources Director for Media General's Community Newspapers

RICHMOMD, Va. — Media General's Publishing Division has named Dale Sumers as director of human resources for the company's community newspapers.

Before joining Media General, Sumers worked 10 years for the University of Texas at Austin, where she was most recently assistant director of human resources. Before that she was director of employee relations for SYSCO Corp. in Houston.

"Dale is a human resources veteran and a proven leader," said Frank A. McDonald Jr., vice president and director of human resources for Media General's Publishing Division. "She has 22 years of combined experience in two organizations that have more than 17,000 employees.

Sumers is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with a master's degree from the University of Missouri - Columbia.

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.