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FluentMedia to offer access to Wall Street Journal content
CHICAGO (March 25, 2002) - FluentMedia, a content-licensing agency of Tribune Media Services (TMS), has added The Wall Street Journal to its roster of top information providers. The announcement was made today by John Twohey, general manager of FluentMedia. TMS is a subsidiary of Chicago-based Tribune Company (NYSE: TRB).
Under an agreement with Dow Jones, FluentMedia (http://www.fluentmediainfo.com) will offer current news from the Journal to corporate clients for use on their intranets and extranets. "We're very pleased to be able to give our customers access to content from The Wall Street Journal," said Twohey. "As one of the world's pre-eminent providers of daily business news, the Journal brings a new dimension of coverage to our already strong lineup of media partners.
"Having the Journal on board adds tremendous value to FluentMedia's market-intelligence service," he added.
"FluentMedia is now in a position," he said, "to deliver highly targeted packages of editorial content from the Journal, Tribune's newspapers and other premier sources--and to equip our clients with powerful content-management tools that facilitate distribution of this critical information throughout their enterprises."
"No serious intranet would be complete without news from The Wall Street Journal," said Jessica Perry, vice president of business development for Dow Jones Consumer Electronic Publishing. "We're delighted to strengthen our affiliations with Tribune Company to deliver this collection of daily Journal content."
Using advanced filtering technology, FluentMedia delivers customized packages of news, commentary and analysis to corporate clients for use on their intranets, extranets and public marketing sites. The information is tailored to the needs of individual clients.
Content is drawn from major newspapers, top trade publications and other sources. Among the media organizations whose content is available through FluentMedia are the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, Newsday, Baltimore Sun, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and other major-market dailies; Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News; CNET News; the National Journal Group; Crain Communications; and the Gale Group.
About Dow Jones & Company, Inc.

Dow Jones & Company (NYSE:DJ; dj.com) publishes The Wall Street Journal and its international and online editions, Barron's, SmartMoney and the Far Eastern Economic Review magazines and other periodicals, Dow Jones Newswires, Dow Jones Indexes and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones is co-owner with Reuters Group of Factiva, and with NBC of the CNBC television operations in Asia and Europe. Dow Jones also provides news content to CNBC and radio stations in the U.S.

About Tribune Media Services

Tribune Media Services (TMS) is a leading domestic and international provider of information and entertainment products for print, electronic and on-air media. TMS distributes television and movie listings and related editorial content under the Zap2it™ 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 production facilities in Glens Falls, N.Y., and offices in Denver, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New York City, Salt Lake City, 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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