The combined services of the two premier organizations provide online visitors with access to both newspapers' extensive classified advertising sections, including employment, real estate and automotive. Users will get the best news headlines and full stories, as well as searchable yellow page directories with maps and directions and online shopping. The site also has the combined entertainment online services of JustGo.com and GuideLive.com, products of www.star-telegram.com and www.dallasnews.com

Dfw.com will include links to more than 6,000 local Web sites and has the largest database of classified ads in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. The site will be well-positioned as the one-stop-shop resource for the area.

Online users also can register for complimentary email addresses through dfw.com. Available on the site is a series of reference pages for 14 local communities within the Metroplex. These pages provide a brief history of each community, an area map, directions and municipal information.

Burl Osborne, publisher of The Dallas Morning News, said: "Dfw.com is another demonstration of how we can work together to provide customers the services they want and need in the most efficient, easy-to-use manner."

Wes Turner, publisher of The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, said: "This partnership between the Star-Telegram and The Dallas Morning News signifies a new era in online publishing. It just makes sense for us to combine our strengths, namely local knowledge and content, to create the most robust and comprehensive online Web site in the Metroplex."

The new dfw.com is one of more than 45 Web sites in the Knight Ridder Real Cities (www.realcities.com) network. "Dfw.com is a powerful resource unmatched in the region," said Kathy Yates, acting president of Knight Ridder New Media. "We're excited The Dallas Morning News has decided to join the Real Cities network."

About The Dallas Morning News and Belo Corporation:

The Dallas Morning News is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Belo. Belo is one of the nation's largest media companies with a diversified group of television broadcasting, newspaper publishing, cable news and electronic media assets. The company's television group currently reaches 13.6 percent of U.S. television households, including three stations in the top 12 television markets: WFAA-TV (ABC) in Dallas-Fort Worth; KHOU-TV (CBS) in Houston; and KING-TV (NBC) in Seattle-Tacoma. Belo has six stations in the top 30 markets, 11 stations in the top 50 markets, and network-affiliation as follows: four ABC affiliates, six CBS affiliates, five NBC affiliates and two FOX affiliates. In addition, the company manages four television stations through local marketing agreements and owns four local or regional cable news channels.

Belo's Publishing Division includes The Dallas Morning News (http://www.dallasnews.com), which has the country's eighth largest Sunday circulation and ninth largest daily circulation, and The Providence Journal (http://www.projo.com), the leading newspaper in Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts. Belo also owns: The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, California; the Messenger-Inquirer in Owensboro, Kentucky; The Eagle in Bryan-College Station, Texas; the Arlington Morning News in Arlington, Texas; and The Gleaner in Henderson, Kentucky.

About the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Knight Ridder Real Cities:

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Knight Ridder. The Star-Telegram is a pioneer in electronic journalism, operating its own ISP, and is the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes. It is the newspaper of choice in Tarrant County, read by nine out of ten newspaper readers each week. The Star-Telegram became a pioneer in electronic journalism in May of 1982 when it launched a videotext service known as StarText. In November of 1995, the service was moved to the Web and became known as StarText.net, and later was re-titled Star-Telegram.com.

Knight Ridder New Media, a leader in interactive information, is located in San Jose, Calif., and maintains more than 45 Web sites in the Real Cities network (http://www.realcities.com). Real Cities, one of the leading city networks on the Web today, consists of regional portals, city-resource sites and a variety of online services in classifieds, entertainment, shopping, news search and archives.

Knight Ridder (http://www.kri.com) is the nation's second-largest newspaper publisher, with products in print and online. The company publishes 31 daily newspapers in 28 U.S. markets, reaching 9 million readers daily and 12.6 million on Sunday. Knight Ridder has investments in two newsprint mills and is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. In September 1998, the company was named the most innovative user of technology in the United States by InformationWeek magazine in its annual InformationWeek 500 listings.

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Real Cities is a trademark of Knight Ridder New Media. The Star-Telegram is owned by Knight Ridder. The Dallas Morning News is owned by. Belo Corporation.

Contacts:

Neil Foote Belo Corporation (214) 977-6822 nfoote@belo.com

Craig Diebel Fort Worth Star-Telegram (817) 390-7877 cdiebel@star-telegram.com

Cynthia Funnell Knight Ridder Real Cities (408) 938-6076 cfunnell@realcities.com