FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, May 1, 2001

Media General's Graham Woodlief Elected to AP Board of Directors

RICHMOND, Va. — H. Graham Woodlief, vice president of Media General and president of the company's Publishing Division, has been elected to the board of the Associated Press.

Woodlief was selected to fill the remaining year of the term of Richard D. Gottlieb, who resigned from the board due to his retirement as chairman and CEO of Lee Enterprises.

A life-long employee of Media General, Woodlief joined the circulation department of Richmond Newspapers in 1962, while he was still in high school. After graduating from Virginia Commonwealth University, he served Richmond Newspapers in various financial capacities until 1984, when he was promoted to vice president and business manager. Woodlief became a vice president of Media General in 1989, and he was named president of the company's Publishing Division in 1998.

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.