FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, June 20, 2001

TBO.com Wins National Edward R. Murrow Award

TAMPA, Fla. — TBO.com, Media General’s Web site covering the Tampa Bay region of Florida, has won a national Edward R. Murrow Award for overall excellence.

Sponsored by the Radio-Television News Directors Association, Edward R. Murrow awards honor outstanding achievement in electronic journalism. They are widely recognized as the most coveted prize in the broadcast industry, and this is the first year that the Edward R. Murrow competition has included Web sites. TBO.com’s award came in the category for Web sites affiliated with television stations in large markets.

“Winning a national Edward R. Murrow Award is exciting under any circumstances,” said Kirk Read, general manager of TBO.com. “But we are particularly proud to be the first online enterprise to win one in this new category.”

As the online partner of Media General’s convergence effort in Tampa, TBO.com shares content, ideas and other resources with WFLA-TV and The Tampa Tribune. The news operations of all three partners are housed in Media General’s News Center, which opened in March of 2000.

“We will gladly share this award with our colleagues at WFLA and The Tampa Tribune,” Read said. “By working together, we have raised the standard of journalism in the Tampa Bay region. Our customers have been rewarding us for our efforts, and now it’s wonderful to be recognized by the industry as well.”

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.