Exhibit 99.1

R.H. Donnelley Appoints Robert A. Gross Vice President and Controller

    CARY, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 5, 2005--R.H. Donnelley
Corporation (NYSE: RHD), a leading yellow pages publisher and
directional media company, today announced that Robert A. Gross has
been appointed Vice President and Controller, effective January 4,
2005.
    Gross previously served as Vice President - Finance at R.H.
Donnelley since September 2004. Prior to the Company's acquisition of
SBC Communications Inc.'s directory publishing business in Illinois
and Northwest Indiana in September 2004, Gross had served as Vice
President and Chief Financial Officer of the DonTech II partnership,
the Company's 50/50 perpetual partnership with SBC since December
1997. Gross joined DonTech in October 1992 as Manager of Budgets and
Strategic Planning and was appointed Controller of DonTech in March
1993. Prior to joining DonTech, Gross held various roles of increasing
responsibility at G.R.I. Corporation and Continental Bank. Prior to
that, Gross worked in audit for Ernst & Whinney (now Ernst & Young).

    About R.H. Donnelley

    RHD publishes 389 directories, with total distribution of
approximately 28 million serving approximately 260,000 local and
national advertisers in 19 states. RHD publishes 260 directories under
the Sprint Yellow Pages(R) brand in 18 states with total distribution
of approximately 18 million serving approximately 160,000 local and
national advertisers, with major markets including Las Vegas, Nevada,
and Orlando and Ft. Myers, Florida. In addition, RHD publishes 129
directories under the SBC(R) Yellow Pages brand in Illinois and
Northwest Indiana with total distribution of approximately 10 million
serving approximately 100,000 local and national advertisers. RHD also
offers online city guides and search websites in its major Sprint
markets under the Best Red Yellow Pages(R) brand at www.bestredyp.com
and in the Chicago area at www.chicagolandyp.com. RHD also sells local
advertising in Illinois and Northwest Indiana onto SBC's
www.SMARTpages.com. For more information, please visit R.H. Donnelley
at www.rhd.com.

    Safe Harbor Provision

    Certain statements contained in this press release regarding R.H.
Donnelley's future operating results or performance or business plans
or prospects and any other statements not constituting historical fact
are "forward-looking statements" subject to the safe harbor created by
the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Where possible,
the words "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "should," "will,"
"planned," "estimated," "potential," "goal," "outlook," and similar
expressions, as they relate to R.H. Donnelley or its management, have
been used to identify such forward-looking statements. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, the statements under the
caption "Outlook" are forward-looking statements. Regardless of any
identifying phrases, these statements and all other forward-looking
statements reflect only R.H. Donnelley's current beliefs and
assumptions with respect to future business plans, prospects,
decisions and results, and are based on information currently
available to R.H. Donnelley. Accordingly, the statements are subject
to significant risks, uncertainties and contingencies which could
cause R.H. Donnelley's actual operating results, performance or
business plans or prospects to differ materially from those expressed
in, or implied by, these statements. Such risks, uncertainties and
contingencies are described in detail in Management's Discussion and
Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in the
Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
2003, as well as the Company's other periodic filings with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, and in summary and without
limitation include the following: (1) our ability to meet our
substantial debt service obligations; (2) restrictive covenants under
the terms our debt and convertible preferred stock agreements; (3)
usage of print yellow pages directories and changes in technology; (4)
competition in the yellow pages industry and other competitive media;
(5) our ability to successfully integrate the business recently
acquired from SBC; (6) reliance on and extension of credit to small-
and medium-sized businesses; (7) dependence on third party providers
of printing, distribution and delivery services and the sale of
advertising to national accounts; (8) general economic conditions and
consumer sentiment in our markets; and (9) fluctuations in the price
and availability of paper.

    CONTACT: R.H. Donnelley
             James M. Gruskin, 800-497-6329