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Dialog Names Cliff Pollan Executive Vice President, Strategy and Alliances

CARY, N.C., USA — August 22, 2002 — Dialog, a Thomson (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) business and a leading worldwide provider of online-based information services and integrated information solutions, today announced that Clifford M. Pollan, formerly president and CEO of NewsEdge, has been appointed as Dialog executive vice president, strategy and alliances.

The appointment comes as the integration of NewsEdge into Dialog has been completed. NewsEdge, of which Pollan was a co-founder in 1989, was acquired by The Thomson Corporation in September 2001.

In his new position, Pollan reports to Dialog President and CEO Roy M. Martin, Jr., with global responsibility to coordinate all business development activities, including acquisitions and new ventures, as well as operating responsibilities for alliances and third-party relationships.

Pollan will also coordinate overall strategy development for Dialog.

"The area of alliances offers an incredible opportunity for Dialog at this point in our company's history, both within and outside the Thomson family of companies," said Martin. "The appointment of Cliff Pollan to this new, strategic position will allow us to integrate all alliance-related efforts worldwide. The combined strength of Dialog and NewsEdge creates enormous potential to provide broad and powerful information and tools to the business and professional information marketplace we serve. Cliff, with his tremendous experience in the information industry, has the knowledge and management skills to excel at this exciting challenge."

While at NewsEdge, Pollan first served as vice president of sales and marketing, then president and COO before becoming CEO. Previously, he was a director of sales at Lotus Development Corporation. Before that, he was a member of the management team of Isys Corporation, a financial information company that was acquired by Lotus. From 1978 to 1984, he was employed by Data Resources, Inc., an economic information service company, as a director of consulting.

Pollan holds a bachelor's degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Pollan, with worldwide responsibilities, will remain based at the Dialog office in Burlington, Massachusetts, USA, office, formerly NewsEdge's headquarters.

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About Dialog
Founded in 1972 by Dr. Roger K. Summit, a pioneer in developing the technology behind electronic information retrieval, Dialog is the world leader in providing online-based information services to organizations seeking competitive advantages in such fields as business, science, engineering, finance and law.

Today, Dialog's online services – offered through the Dialog®, Dialog Profound®, Dialog DataStar™, NewsEdge and Intelligence Data brands – give users the ability to precisely retrieve data from more than 1.4 billion unique records, accessible via the Internet or through delivery to enterprise intranets. Searchable content includes articles and reports from thousands of real-time news feeds, newspapers, broadcast transcripts and trade publications, plus research reports and analyst notes providing support for financial decision-making, as well as in-depth repositories of scientific and technical data, patents, trademarks and other intellectual property data.

Corporate librarians, knowledge managers, other information professionals and end-users at more than 25,000 business, professional and government organizations in more than 100 countries prize Dialog services for their depth and breadth of content, precision searching and speed.

Headquartered in Cary, N.C., USA, with direct operations in 31 other countries worldwide, Dialog is a business of The Thomson Corporation. For more information about Dialog, please visit www.dialog.com. Or, please call (U.S./Canada) 800-3-DIALOG or (U.S.) 919-462-8600. Dialog's London office may be reached at (44) (0) 207-940-6900.

About The Thomson Corporation
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com), with 2001 revenues of US$7.2 billion, is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. Thomson provides value-added information, software applications and tools to more than 20 million users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, financial services, higher education, reference information, corporate training and assessment, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).

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