FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, Aug. 22, 2002

Media General Hosts Diversity Job Fair

RICHMOND, Va. — Media General, Inc. (NYSE: MEG) and The Tampa Tribune will host a Diversity Job Fair Oct. 10 & 11, 2002 at the Radisson Riverwalk Hotel in Tampa, Fla.

One of several regional job fairs sponsored by ANSE and NAA, the Diversity Job Fair is designed to connect newspaper recruiters with African American, Hispanic, Asian American and Native American job candidates. Students from Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida will be invited to attend workshops and meet recruiters interviewing for business, print, television and online positions and internships.

Workshops will be offered the morning of Thursday Oct. 10. Workshop topics include:

• Ethics: Not For Sale
• Getting Your First Internship or Job
• The Total Package: The marriage of content and visuals in the new multimedia newsroom

Open interviews will take place Thursday afternoon. A reception Thursday evening will feature tours of The News Center, Media General's multimedia showcase that houses the newsrooms of The Tampa Tribune, WFLA-TV and TBO.com. Scheduled interviews will take place Friday, Oct. 11.

To register for the Diversity Job Fair go to www.tbo.com, keyword: ASNE Job Fair. Let us know if you will attend, or if you will send someone from your newspaper, university or organization.

Room rates of $89 per night are available from the Radisson Riverwalk Tampa, 200 North Ashley Drive, 813-223-2222, when you ask for the Diversity Job Fair rate.

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.

Contact:
Beverly Dominick
(813) 259-7633
jobfair@tampatrib.com