"U.S. NEWS COMPLETE COLLEGE ADVISER" CD-ROM TO BE RELEASED FALL '95

May 15, 1995 -- WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. News & World Report is creating a
multimedia complement to its upcoming "1996 America's Best Colleges"
annual guide, to be released this fall. The U.S. News Complete College
Adviser, the first CD-ROM from U.S. News, will offer prospective college
students and their parents an easy-to-use tool to guide them through the
college selection, application and financial aid process.

U.S. News is working with Creative Multimedia (CM), a Portland-based
company, to develop the CD-ROM product. CM, an established CD-ROM
developer, has a history of successful partnerships with mainstream media
organizations such as Air & Space Smithsonian magazine, Sports Illustrated
For Kids, Life magazine, Golf Digest, Conde Nast's Travel & Leisure,
Fodor's and Random House.

The U.S. News Complete College Adviser CD-ROM will cover the four basic
steps involved in going to college: Choosing a College, Applying to
College, Paying for College and Preparing for College. Using the Complete
College Adviser, students will be able to produce a list of ten
educational institutions best suited to them, based on their personal
input, from among the 1,400 schools in the exclusive U.S. News college
database. In addition, they will be able to receive tips from admissions
experts, fill out financial aid worksheets, find helpful hints on writing
an application essay, study sample SAT questions, view award-winning
videos made by college students and get automatic calendar reminders on
every aspect of the college application process.

"The U.S. News Complete College Adviser is an example of what multimedia
can do best," says Bill Allman, U.S. News's editor of new media. "We're
taking mountains of complex information and making it accessible,
entertaining, and most of all, customized to meet each individual user's
needs."

Since 1983, when U.S. News published its first "America's Best Colleges"
issue, the magazine has become the authority when it comes to colleges and
graduate schools. The Complete College Adviser CD-ROM will be a natural
extension of the magazine's expertise into a new media form.

"For students headed for higher education, the U.S. News CD-ROM will be an
enormously useful tool," says Mel Elfin, editor of U.S. News's "America's
Best Colleges" and "America's Best Graduate Schools" annual guides,
available in the magazine and as newsstand books. "It will be like having
a private guidance counselor at your side as you cope with the ever-more
complicated process of choosing a school, taking the entrance exams,
completing the applications, surviving the interviews, applying for
financial aid, and finally, getting ready for one of life's most important
adventures--a college career."

The high-quality CD-ROM will sell at a retail price of less than $30,
making it an affordable and accessible CD-ROM. It will be available in
computer, software and video outlets as well as bookstores this fall, in
both Windows and Macintosh versions. The combination of U.S. News's "1996
America's Best Colleges" newsstand book and the Complete College Adviser
CD-ROM will be available in some locations.

Founded in 1987, Creative Multimedia develops, manufactures, markets and
distributes CD-ROMs for use with personal computers. Creative Multimedia,
the leader in lifestyle and leisure interactive multimedia, partners with
the nation's leading publishers and entertainers to bring the highest
quality, name-brand, interactive experiences to the market.

U.S.News & World Report, serving 12.2 million readers each week, was the
first national weekly newsmagazine to join CompuServe, the leading
worldwide online information service for personal computer users, reaching
3 million members in 150 countries. U.S. News Online on CompuServe each
week offers full text, graphics and photos to online members and
interactive advertising.

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