Times Mirror Launches www.tm.com

Business Wire, July 8, 1997

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 8, 1997--Times Mirror today announced the launch of its World Wide Web site, tm.com, which provides the latest news and information about the company.

The Web site can be found on the Internet at http://www.tm.com . By visiting the site, visitors can find the following features:

About Us: A description of Times Mirror and its operating

companies, executive biographies and a message from Chairman and

CEO Mark Willes.

Our Companies: Company profiles, along with links to their

Internet sites. These include latimes.com, the Web site for the

Los Angeles Times; newsday.com, Newsday's site, and links to

other Times Mirror newspapers; bender.com, the site of legal

publisher Matthew Bender, and mosby.com, the site of health

sciences publisher Mosby-Year Book; jeppesen.com, flight

information provider Jeppesen Sanderson's site; and Times Mirror

Magazines' sites, including Popular Sciences' popsci.com; Golf

Magazine's golfonline.com, and Ski Magazine's skinet.com .

Financial News: Current stock quotes, updated every 15 minutes;

company news releases; the chairman's annual meeting remarks;

management presentations; financial data from the 1996 annual

report, and access to Securities Exchange Commission filings.

Awards: A listing of all Pulitzer Prizes won by Times Mirror

newspapers, and award winners of the company's 1997 employee

recognition program.

``With tm.com, we now have a common link to all of our companies' Internet sites,'' said Mark H. Willes, Times Mirror chairman, president and chief executive officer. ``Our site, which was designed to be rich in content and easy to navigate, will prove to be a useful research and information tool for many audiences, including the investment community, shareholders, employees, the media, students and others.''

Times Mirror worked with San Francisco-based vivid studios, a leading Internet architect of global networks and online communities, to build the site, which included graphics, icons, site navigation and a framework for content organization.

Times Mirror (TMC -- New York and Pacific stock exchanges), a Los Angeles-based, news and information company, publishes the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, The Baltimore Sun, The Hartford Courant and other newspapers; a wide array of professional information for the legal, health sciences, aviation and training markets, and consumer magazines.

CONTACT: Times Mirror Co., Los Angeles

Vicki Cho Estrada, 213/237-6409 (media)

Jean M. Jarvis, 213/237-3955 (investors)