SanDiegoInsider.com Brings Home Journalism Awards

Business Wire, June 18, 1998

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 1998--

Top Honors for Best Online Sports Site and Best Online News or Sports Story

SanDiegoInsider.com received four awards Wednesday from the Society of Professional Journalists, including first place for Best Sports Site and Best News or Sports Story, and second place for General Excellence in the Online category.

SanDiegoInsider.com Sports Producer John Freeman accepted the first-place award for Best Sports Site. "It's a fun site, with good interactivity and tons of good information," the judges wrote.

Also taking first-place honors was Bonnie Nicholls, SanDiegoInsider.com's news producer, in the category of Best News or Sports Story. Nicholls' entry, "Road Rage," "offers good research and advice on a scary event that could happen to anyone on the road."

SanDiegoInsider.com also received the second-place award for General Excellence and an honorable mention for Best News Site.

SanDiegoInsider.com is a product of Cox InteractiveMedia. It is an online, interactive community designed specifically for San Diegans and includes dining and movie guides as well as entertainment, sports, recreation and news channels. The site is available free on the Internet and on the Cox@Home high- speed Internet access service.

CIM is the nation's largest provider of local content on the Internet, surpassing every traditional media company and online provider. In its first year, the Atlanta-based company has experienced explosive growth, going from a two-person shop to employing more than 300 people. The company operates the nation's most extensive network of city, regional and national brands, CIMnet. To date, CIMnet includes 18 city sites and six specialty sites (www.cimedia.com).

Cox Interactive Media, a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, Inc., is headquartered in Atlanta. A leading media company, Cox Enterprises includes Cox Newspapers, Inc. (newspapers, direct mail marketing, book publishing), Cox Broadcasting, Inc. (TV, spot sales, television production, research, publicly traded Cox Radio, Inc.) and publicly traded Cox Communications, Inc. (cable distribution, programming, broadband communications) in addition to Cox Interactive Media. The company is also the world's largest operator of automobile auctions through Manheim Auctions, providing financial services, government auctions, online services and price guides.

   CONTACT: John Pihl, Cox Interactive Media
             619.610.5568
             jpihl@cimedia.com
             Jan Percival, Scribe Communications
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