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SD TIMES HONORED FOR GENERAL EXCELLENCE

The software development industry’s newspaper “continues to raise the editorial bar”

Oyster Bay, N.Y., October 10, 2001 - BZ Media's SD Times, the newspaper of record for software development managers, was recognized for General Excellence in the Fall/Winter 2001 edition of min magazine, a leading trade publication for the magazine industry.

The Fall/Winter 2001 edition, which was dedicated to covering the top magazines in America, recognized SD Times, along with Smithsonian and Marie Claire, with an Honorable Mention in the category of General Excellence. The two winners in the General Excellence category were McGraw-Hill's BusinessWeek and CMP Media's InformationWeek.

In their description of SD Times, the editors of min magazine wrote, "This pub continues to raise the editorial bar, and even as the developer/tech category headed south, SD Times garnered an impressive 130.54% YTD up-tick." According to the story, the category's total ad pages through July 2001 declined 3.80% year-to-date compared to 2000 levels.

"We are delighted with min magazine's recognition of our hard work and editorial values," said Alan Zeichick, editor-in-chief of SD Times. "As the newspaper of record for the software development industry, we take our responsibilities to the community very seriously. To think that a new publication like ours can be listed alongside such established and successful titles as Smithsonian and Marie Claire, and to be compared to BusinessWeek and InformationWeek, validates how well we're serving our readers."

SD Times was launched by BZ Media in February 2000, and serves an audience of more than 40,000 software development managers with each issue.

"We would like to thank min magazine for this honor," said Ted Bahr, publisher of SD Times. "As the only tabloid-format news publication recognized in the General Excellence category, we appreciate that they would look outside the standard magazine format, and beyond the large media giants, to find editorial excellence in our newspaper."

min magazine is published twice per year by PBI Media, a subsidiary of Veronis Suhler and Associates, as a supplement to min's Media Industry Newsletter, a weekly report that has tracked the business of trade and consumer publishing since 1947.