In its April 2000 edition, Brill's Content taps three sites on the Salon.com network as ``Best of the Web 2000.'' These include: Salon Travel & Food, Salon Politics2000 and Salon Media. In the case of Salon Travel & Food (www.salon.com/travel), the editors of Brill's Content implore readers to ``go to Salon Travel & Food, host to the Best Travel Writing in the online world.'' Renowned writers for the site include Burt Wolf, Pico Iyer, Isabel Allende and Simon Winchester.

Salon Media (www.salon.com/media) is cited, in part, for revealing the collaboration between the federal government and television networks in covertly embedding anti-drug messages into prime-time programming. In Salon Media, contributors Sean Elder, Nikke Finke and Ruth Shalit routinely target the news, entertainment and advertising industries with edgy, timely and insightful reporting and commentary.

Launched just two months ago, Salon Politics2000 (www.salon.com/politics2000) is already earning accolades for its political coverage. Brill's Content called it the ``Best Expanded Political Site,'' with continuous updates from the presidential and congressional campaign trails, including insightful musings and breaking news from staff writers Jake Tapper and Anthony York.

``Salon is honored to have three of its sites singled out by a media watchdog like Brill's Content,'' said David Talbot, editor in chief of Salon.com. ``Coupled with the recent similar rankings in Forbes and Yahoo! Internet Life, it illustrates how Salon's editors and reporters have won the hard-earned respect of their peers.''

ABOUT SALON.COM

Salon.com (www.salon.com; AOL Keyword: Salon) is an Internet media company that produces a network of 11 original content sites and two communities -- Table Talk and The Well. Salon.com was founded by David Talbot, a former editor at the San Francisco Examiner. Premier advertisers and sponsors of Salon.com include IBM, Lexus, Microsoft, Virgin Megastore Online, Intel, eVineyards, DrKoop.com, barnesandnoble.com and EDS. Salon.com has relationships with more than 325 advertising sponsors. In December 1999, the site had 3.4 million unique visitors as audited by Audit Bureau of Circulations.

Salon.com recently announced an equity and content agreement with Rainbow Media Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corporation and NBC, to develop online content and Salon.com's first television series, targeted to air on Bravo, the Film and Arts Network, in Fall 2000.

Recently, Salon.com announced a content agreement with Red Hat, a leading provider of open-source and Linux software, and with Adobe.com, the fourth largest, U.S.-based personal software company. Salon.com also distributes its content to leading online and Internet companies such as America Online (AOL). Other Internet sites that carry Salon.com content on a regular basis include Lycos, Go.com, Alta Vista, Reuters, CNN.com and Cnet. In the wireless and handheld arenas, Salon.com has signed content distribution agreements with AvantGo and Rocket eBooks. Salon.com also syndicates through United Features Syndicate and has an e-commerce ticketing and advertising sponsorship sales agreement with CultureFinder.

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