Harte-Hanks Increases Quarterly Dividend and Announces Date of 4th Quarter 2005 Earnings Release and Teleconference

The board of directors of Harte-Hanks, Inc. (NYSE:HHS)
has declared a regular quarterly dividend of 6.0 cents per share
payable March 15, 2006 to shareholders of record on March 1, 2006.
This represents a 20% increase in the regular quarterly dividend and
is the eleventh dividend increase since the company went public in
1993 for the second time.
   Harte-Hanks is scheduled to release its fourth quarter 2005
financial results on Tuesday, January 31, 2006. The Company will host
a conference call to discuss the earnings release on January 31, 2006
at 10:00 a.m. CST. The conference call number is 800-988-9498,
pass-code 121693. The conference call will also be audio webcast. To
access, please go to https://e-meetings.mci.com, conference number
1017893, pass-code 121693. There will be an audio replay available
shortly after the call through February 10, 2006. To access, please
call 888-567-0415, pass-code 121693.
   Harte-Hanks, Inc., San Antonio, TX, is a worldwide, direct and
targeted marketing company that provides direct marketing services and
shopper advertising opportunities to a wide range of local, regional,
national and international consumer and business-to-business
marketers. Harte-Hanks Direct Marketing improves the return on its
clients' marketing investment with a range of services organized
around five solution points: Construct and update the database --
Access the data -- Analyze the data -- Apply the knowledge -- Execute
the programs. Expert at each element within this process, Harte-Hanks
Direct Marketing is highly skilled at tailoring solutions for each of
the vertical markets it serves. 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 circulation in excess of 12 million in
California and Florida each week.

   For more information, contact: Chief Financial Officer Dean Blythe
210-829-9138 or e-mail at [e-mail].
   This release and other information about Harte-Hanks can be found
on the World Wide Web at http://www.harte-hanks.com