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Dialog Appoints Christine Naylor as CFO

CARY, N.C., USA, (December 10, 2001) -- The Dialog Corporation, a Thomson business and a leading worldwide provider of online-based information services, today announced the appointment of Chris Naylor as chief financial officer. She is Dialog's senior financial officer, managing all of the company's financial activities worldwide.

Prior to joining Dialog, Naylor was a vice president for West Group, a leading provider of legal, regulatory and business information and also a Thomson business. Among her other accomplishments at West Group, she spearheaded the re-engineering of the company's customer ordering and fulfillment systems, and also initiated a comprehensive product review process.

Before West Group, Naylor held various financial and management positions with global healthcare company Bausch & Lomb, including chief financial officer for Dahlberg, Inc., a Bausch & Lomb company.

Naylor is a graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology and holds a MBA from the University of Rochester, Simon School. She and her family have relocated to the Cary, N.C., area, where Dialog maintains its headquarters.

"We are delighted to have an executive of Chris Naylor's experience and expertise join us," said Roy M. Martin Jr., Dialog president and chief executive officer. "Her leadership skills will be an important asset as we continue to create innovative new products and services, and enhance our existing ones, for our customers worldwide."

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About Dialog
Dialog is the worldwide leader in providing online-based information services to organizations seeking competitive advantages in such fields as business, science, engineering, finance and law. Its products and services, such as Dialog®, Profound® and DataStar™, offer organizations the ability to precisely retrieve data from more than 800 million unique records, accessible via the Internet or through delivery to enterprise Intranets. For almost three decades, Dialog's brands have been known for their breadth and depth of content, precision searching and speed. The Winter Corporation recently recognized Dialog for its breadth and depth of content when they named the company the Grand Prize-winner in the Database Scalability Program 2000.

Headquartered in Cary, N.C., USA, with direct operations in 30 countries, Dialog products are used by more than 20,000 corporate customers in over 100 countries. Dialog is a subsidiary of The Thomson Corporation, a leading global e-information and solutions company in the business and professional marketplace with 2000 revenues of approximately $6 billion. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the Toronto (TSE:TOC) and London stock exchanges.

For more information about Dialog, call 1-800-3-DIALOG or visit www.dialog.com. For more information about Thomson, visit www.thomson.com.

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