Directorate Change

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
24 October 2002

                          BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC

                               MAIN BOARD CHANGE

London,  24 October 2002:  Alan Wherry, a founding and executive director of
Bloomsbury Publishing plc will resign from the Board on 29th November, 2002 on
the occasion of his retirement following his 60th birthday.   He has been
responsible for the setting up and the current running of Bloomsbury USA.  On
retirement from Bloomsbury he will continue his connection with Bloomsbury USA
as a consultant.

His role as head of Bloomsbury USA will be taken over by Karen Rinaldi,
Editorial Director of Bloomsbury in New York with effect from 2nd December.
Karen Rinaldi has a wealth of publishing experience and joined Bloomsbury in
1999 as its first US based editor. She has already commissioned several
bestsellers for the company, including Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential.
She was also a Senior International Tax Consultant for Price Waterhouse for four
years.

Nigel Newton, Chief Executive of Bloomsbury, said, 'Alan has been an invaluable
colleague right from the start of the company in 1986 and I shall greatly miss
him both personally and professionally. I would like to thank him for his
enormous contribution to the founding of Bloomsbury and also of Bloomsbury USA.
I am delighted that Karen Rinaldi has accepted  to succeed him since Bloomsbury
USA has already benefited from her considerable skills as a Publisher and I look
forward to working with her on the growth of our US company'.


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For further information, please contact:

Impact Consultancy, Simon Forrest                                07885 317 746
Impact Consultancy, Switchboard                                  020 7479 4770

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Nigel Newton, Chairman,               020 7494 6015





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