Media General Board Elects James Woodward Corporate Vice President

Media General Board Elects James Woodward Corporate Vice President

RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Board of Directors of Media General, Inc. (NYSE:MEG) today elected James F. Woodward, 45, a vice president of the company, effective October 1, 2005. Woodward is the company's Director of Corporate Human Resources, a position he has held since 1999.

Marshall N. Morton, president and chief executive officer, said, "Jim has done an excellent job leading a team of professionals to create a corporate human resources function for Media General that supports our mission and our growing company. Today we benefit from the compensation, benefits, employee development, recruiting and retention processes that have been enhanced under Jim's leadership. I'm delighted to see his work rewarded with this promotion."

Woodward joined Media General in 1983 as a staff accountant in the Financial Administration Department, with responsibility for preparing Securities and Exchange Commission and other external reporting documents. During the past 12 years, he has served as audit manager in the Internal Audit Department, assistant controller at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, and manager of human resource systems in the Finance Department.

Woodward graduated from James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va., in 1983 with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting.

About Media General

Media General is a diversified communications company operating leading newspapers, television stations and online enterprises, primarily in the Southeastern United States. The company's publishing assets include three metropolitan newspapers, The Tampa Tribune, Richmond Times-Dispatch, and Winston-Salem Journal; 22 daily community newspapers in Virginia, North Carolina, Florida, Alabama and South Carolina; and more than 100 weekly newspapers and other publications. The company's broadcasting assets include 26 network-affiliated television stations that 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 interactive media assets include more than 50 online enterprises that are associated with its newspapers and television stations. Media General also owns a 33 percent interest in SP Newsprint Company.

Source: Media General, Inc.

CONTACT: Ray Kozakewicz of Media General, Inc., +1-804-649-6748

Web site: http://www.mediageneral.com/

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