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Dialog NewsEdge Expands Access to Critical Financial News and Analysis

Thomson Financial News gives researchers real-time access to insight and trends affecting their business

CARY, N.C., USA (March 16, 2005) — Dialog, a business within The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC), today announced that Thomson Financial News is now available via Dialog NewsEdge®, the company’s premier news monitoring and current awareness service. Thomson Financial News will give Dialog NewsEdge customers a competitive advantage by giving them powerful insight into industry trends and events affecting their and their client’s businesses.

Thomson Financial News brings together award-winning financial news coverage from MarketWatch and proprietary information from Thomson Financial. This includes market expertise from more than 120 journalists as well as more than 100 Thomson analysts and market commentators around the world. Thomson Financial News also includes data from Thomson Financial’s premier content, including IFR, CCBN, SDC deals data and Thomson First Call.

This new service gives Dialog NewsEdge users in-depth industry and company-specific news that can be used to keep a pulse on the market and their position in it.

“Thomson Financial News will provide Dialog NewsEdge customers with timely, trusted and complete coverage of market-moving financial news stories,” said Cheryl Curran, senior vice president, Strategic Marketing, Dialog NewsEdge. “With exclusive insights generated from proprietary Thomson Financial data, we have stories that can't be found anywhere else. Moreover, we’re giving our customers unique access to information that could affect their business, enabling them to move faster and gain a significant competitive advantage.”

Curran added that Dialog plans to make the content available on Dialog NewsRoom® later this year.

The Thomson Financial News real-time feed provides company and industry coverage and market insight, including the following:

• Broad Market Coverage – Coverage of the market-moving events that affect a client's business, including:
  • Overnight International News
  • Global Economic News
  • Breaking News
  • Ongoing Market Summaries: DJIA, NASDAQ, S&P 500, Russell 2000
  • Winners & Losers
  • Major Court Actions
  • Government and Legislation
• Global 1000 – Insight into the top 1000 global firms through features such as:
  • Press Releases
  • Earnings Reports
  • New Product Introductions
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Initial Public Offerings
  • SEC filings
  • Research Coverage
  • Mutual Fund Watch
  • Due Diligence
• Specialized Sector Coverage – Intraday reports on major industry sectors and sub-sectors, including advertising and media, automotive, biotech, financial stocks, Internet and telecom stocks
• Market Pulse Bulletins – Snapshot bulletins that break throughout the trading day, providing key insight into the stories that count
• Special Reports and Exclusives – Regular reports, interviews and exclusives that tackle the larger issues affecting the marketplace
• Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange — Intraday reports from all major centers, Fed and other central bank coverage, Washington calendar, economic forecasts and releases, and analysis from market experts.

For more information about Thomson Financial News and Dialog NewsEdge visit our Web site.

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About Dialog and The Thomson Corporation
Dialog, a pioneer in developing the technology behind electronic information retrieval, 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, the online services provided by Dialog — offered through the Dialog®, Dialog Profound®, Dialog DataStar®, Dialog NewsEdge® and Dialog Intelliscope® 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. Information professionals and end-users at business, professional and government organizations in more than 100 countries prize Dialog services for their depth and breadth of content, precision searching and speed.

Based in Cary, N.C., USA, Dialog has operations in 27 other countries. Dialog (www.dialog.com) is a business of The Thomson Corporation (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC). With 2004 revenues of US$8.1 billion, Thomson (www.thomson.com) is a global leader in providing integrated information solutions to business and professional customers.

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