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For immediate release
January 14, 2005
For more information, contact:
Jan M. Guszynski
Marketing Director
Tribune Media Services
(312) 222-4717
jguszynski@tribune.com

Tribune Media Services Names Mary Elson Managing Editor

Chicago, IL, January 14, 2005 — Tribune Media Services (TMS) today announced that Mary Elson, a senior newsroom manager at the Chicago Tribune, has joined the company as managing editor of its content-syndication division. TMS, a Chicago-based subsidiary of Tribune Company, supplies editorial content and services to media clients worldwide.
Elson, a former associate managing editor for features at the Tribune, will oversee the daily operations of TMS' Chicago-based editorial team and focus on the development of new content and services for sale to newspaper editors in the U.S. and abroad.
"Mary is a highly accomplished newspaper editor with a remarkably broad set of skills," said John Twohey, TMS vice president for editorial and operations. "Not only does she have extensive experience in directing teams of feature writers and editors, she also has an impressive track record as a manager on the breaking-news side of the business. It's a great combination of credentials."

In her role as an associate managing editor at the Tribune, Elson was responsible for the newspaper's entertainment coverage plus its daily features section (Tempo), Friday events guide and Sunday TV book. She also served on several company-wide strategic-planning teams, and played a key role in the launch of "Ask Amy," the daily advice column produced by Amy Dickinson of the Chicago Tribune and syndicated by TMS.
Prior to these assignments, Elson was deputy metropolitan editor, where she supervised local projects and series, and oversaw development of enterprise reports for Page One. She previously served as Chicago Bureau Chief, writing coach for the metro news staff, metropolitan reporter and Tempo staff writer.
Earlier in her career, she worked as a reporter and editor at the St. Petersburg Times, Nashville Banner, Dallas Morning News and Dallas Times Herald.

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. It distributes television and movie listings and related editorial content under the TMS and Zap2it brands; syndicates and licenses comics, features and opinion columns; creates and syndicates a variety of online 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 Los Angeles, New York, Glens Falls, N.Y., Dallas, Houston, , Milwaukee, Amsterdam, London and Hong Kong, TMS is a subsidiary of the Tribune Company (NYSE:TRB). For more information about TMS and its products and services, visit (http://www.TMS.Tribune.com).