News Release

Angie Cunningham
Communications Manager
Phone: (212) 856-6387
E-mail: acunningham@nnnlp.com
Web site: www.nnnlp.com
October 7, 2003

A. GWYN WILLIAMS APPOINTED VICE PRESIDENT, FINANCE AT NEWSPAPER NATIONAL NETWORK LP

New York -- A. Gwyn Williams, 49, has been named Vice President, Finance, for the Newspaper National Network, LP, a new position.

Williams has 17 years of financial and operational management experience in media companies. He was most recently Chief Financial Officer of Thomson Media, publisher of American Banker newspaper. Prior to Thomson, he had 14 years experience at Reed Elsevier, the Anglo-Dutch professional information publishing company, where his roles included Senior Vice President, Finance & Administration, North America, for Elsevier Science Inc in New York, and Senior Vice President, Finance & Operations for Reed Reference Publishing in New Jersey.

Williams holds a BA in Mathematics from Oxford University and gained his (UK) Chartered Accountant accreditation while at Touche Ross in London.

About NNN

NNN is a for-profit, limited liability partnership whose ownership includes virtually all of the largest US newspaper publishers and the Newspaper Association of America (www.naa.org). Its 23 newspaper company shareholders are as follows: Tribune Co. (TRB), Knight Ridder (KRI), Advance Publications Inc., Gannett Co. Inc. (GCI), The New York Times Co. (NYT), Hearst Newspapers, The Washington Post Co. (WPO), The McClatchy Co. (MNI), The Chicago Sun-Times, Belo (BLC), Cox Newspapers, The Seattle Times Co., Journal Sentinel Inc., The San Diego Union-Tribune, Orange County Register, Pulitzer Inc. (PTZ), E.W. Scripps (SSP), The St. Petersburg Times, The Buffalo News, MediaNews Group Inc., Media General Inc. (MEG), Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Omaha World-Herald.

NNN is the primary sales and marketing arm for the newspaper industry for key national categories of advertising. NNN plans, places, and services multi-market newspaper campaigns. NNN offers a premium service model, and its client base is restricted to advertisers in selected national categories where TV, magazines and other media receive 90% or more of category advertising spending such as packaged goods, pharmaceuticals, technology, and household products. NNN is headquartered in New York with offices in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles and San Francisco. More information about NNN can be found at www.nnnlp.com.