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FluentMedia Adds BBC Monitoring To International Content Providers
(Chicago, April 2, 2003) - FluentMedia^TM, a content-licensing agency of Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB), has expanded the scope of its international sources by adding BBC Monitoring to its list of media partners. BBC Monitoring will supply FluentMedia with a daily feed of news, information and commentary gathered from mass media around the world.
News coverage from BBC Monitoring includes more than 800 articles daily, including economic and political coverage from Asia, Russia, Africa, Middle East, Europe, and the Americas.
BBC Monitoring operates around the clock to monitor more than 3,000 radio, TV, press, Internet and news agency sources, translating into English content in up to 100 languages. This extensive and growing range of sources enables the BBC to provide distinctive, authoritative and reliable coverage of political and economic news around the world.

"We are delighted to add BBC Monitoring to our list of content partners," said Mark Miller, FluentMedia's editorial director. "We're confident that our corporate intranet and extranet clients will find great value in the breadth and depth of BBC's coverage."

BBC Monitoring joins a strong list of international sources whose content is available through FluentMedia. These include The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Associated Press, AFX News, the Economist Intelligence Unit ViewsWire and COMTEX News Network. FluentMedia also draws news articles from the foreign bureaus of the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, USA TODAY, Baltimore Sun and dozens of other top U.S. newspapers.

About BBC Monitoring

BBC Monitoring (http://www.monitor.bbc.co.uk), part of the British Broadcasting Corporation, is a world-class provider of information and comment on political and economic developments throughout the world drawn from the output of broadcasting and news organisations. Expert linguists and journalists select key news and analysis from over 3000 sources in over 100 languages from approximately 150 countries world-wide. BBC Monitoring's news services are highly valued by a large number of leading media, business, government, and legal organisations around the world.

About FluentMedia

FluentMedia is an electronic information service for the corporate market. The content-licensing venture uses advanced filtering technology to provide customized packages of news, commentary and analysis to corporate clients for use on their intranets, extranets and public marketing sites. Content is drawn from major newspapers, wire services, trade publications and other sources. FluentMedia is a content solution from Tribune Media Services, a subsidiary of Tribune Company.

About Tribune Media Services
Tribune Media Services (TMS) is a leading provider of information and entertainment products for domestic and international print, electronic and on-air media. TMS distributes television and movie listings and related editorial content under the Zap2it(tm) brand; syndicates and licenses comics, features and opinion columns; creates and syndicates a variety of on-line information products; licenses editorial content from national periodicals; and manages national advertising networks. Through its Knight Ridder/Tribune partnership, TMS also markets news and features, information graphics and multimedia content. Headquartered in Chicago, with offices in Glens Falls, N.Y., Denver, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Toronto, London and Hong Kong, TMS is a subsidiary of Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB). For more information about TMS and its products and services, visit http://www.TMS.Tribune.com.
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