In addition to his new role as CEO, Blythe will continue to serve as President of Harte-Hanks. Blythe joined Harte-Hanks in 2001 as the company’s General Counsel and subsequently became its Chief Financial Officer in 2003. In August 2007, he was named President of Harte-Hanks.

“Dean has been a strong leader at Harte-Hanks and is the right person to move our company forward,” Chairman of the Board Larry Franklin said. “The board has tremendous confidence that Dean, his corporate leadership team and the leadership of both parts of our company – Direct Marketing and Shoppers – will continue our company’s history of success.”

Prior to joining Harte-Hanks in 2001, Blythe was head of corporate development and general counsel of Hearst-Argyle Television, Inc., a New York Stock Exchange company, and its predecessor, Argyle Television, Inc. He also served at Belo Corporation in various legal and business capacities, after beginning his career in the private practice of law in Dallas, Texas. Blythe earned his B.S. in Economics in 1980 from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and his J.D. in 1983 from Duke University School of Law in Durham, North Carolina.

About Harte-Hanks

Harte-Hanks is a worldwide, direct and targeted marketing company that provides direct marketing services and shopper advertising opportunities to local, regional, national and international consumer and business-to-business marketers. Harte-Hanks Direct Marketing improves return on its clients' marketing investment by increasing their prospect and customer value through solutions and services organized around five groupings of integrated activities: Information (data collection/management) — Opportunity (data access/utilization) — Insight (data analysis/interpretation) — Engagement (program and campaign creation and development) — Interaction (program execution). Harte-Hanks Shoppers is North America's largest owner, operator and distributor of shopper publications, with shoppers that are zoned into more than 1,000 separate editions with approximately 13 million circulation each week in California and Florida. PennySaverUSA.com, the Web site of Harte-Hanks Shoppers, displays the ads published in the print versions of the PennySaverUSA.com and TheFlyer.com publications, and is a leader in the aggregation of online classified ads from free community papers and shoppers across the country.

This release and other information about Harte-Hanks can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.harte-hanks.com.

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