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Stuart Gentle Publisher at Onrec

The New York Times Job Market to be Exclusive Recruitment Provider for Salon.com

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The New York Times Job Market, the print and online recruitment services offering of The New York Times, and Salon Media Group (Nasdaq: SALNc), a leading new media company, has announced that NYTimes.com will be the exclusive recruitment services provider for Salon.com.

Salon.com users will be able to access the extensive resources and tools of NYTimes.com/jobmarket from every page on Salon.com, through a link on the navigation bar. Available resources include career-related Times articles, company research, and industry verticals with targeted information about advertising, education, health care, media and financial services. Salon.com readers who are also employers or recruiters can post jobs to Job Market to reach high-quality candidates on NYTimes.com.

ìWe are thrilled to partner with The New York Times and offer its job search tools and resources to our users through its Job Market service,î said Salon Media Group CEO and president, Michael OíDonnell.

ìSalon.comís like-minded audience makes it a natural partner for The New York Times Job Market,î said Jyll Holzman, senior vice president of advertising at The New York Times. ìThrough this model, we can provide Salon.com and other quality content partners with access to a national marketplace of high-quality job opportunities and employers.î

The NYTimes.com/jobmarket section recorded 675,000 unique users, 11 million page views and 4.5 million job queries in the month of April. Salon.com recorded 35 million page views in April.

About Salon
Founded in 1995, Salon Media Group (Nasdaq: SALNc) is a leading new media company that produces an awarding winning online news and information site, Salon.com, which offers the sophisticated reader everything from breaking news to in-depth analysis to provocative commentary on politics, technology, culture and entertainment. It also operates two subscription-based online communities, The Well and Table Talk. Salon logged 3.8 million unique visitors in April 2002. Companies which have advertised on Salon include IBM, Lexus, PBS, Porsche, Universal Studios, Hewlett-Packard, Ford, Sprint, Microsoft, Absolut, ING, Powell''s Books, Discover Card and Intel.

About The New York Times and New York Times Job Market
The New York Times Job Market provides employers with a convenient way to reach the best talent and the broadest audience in the New York area with a single integrated advertising buy. The Job Market section at NYTimes.com also includes industry- and career-related Times articles, exhaustive research on companies, a resume database and other tools designed to make the recruitment process easier for both employers and job seekers.

The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), a leading media company with 2001 revenues of $3.0 billion, publishes The New York Times, The Boston Globe and 16 other newspapers; owns eight network-affiliated television stations and two New York radio stations; and has more than 40 Web sites, including NYTimes.com and Boston.com. In 2002 the Company was ranked No. 1 in the publishing industry in Fortune''s list of America''s Most Admired Companies. Among all 530 companies on the list, the Company ranked No. 1 in quality of products/services and No. 1 in social responsibility. The Company''s core purpose is to enhance society by creating, collecting and distributing high-quality news, information and entertainment.