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The Salt Lake Tribune:

•Best Sports Website (under 1 million unique monthly visitors). •Best Use of Social Media for News Services (1 million unique monthly visitors and over).

The York Daily Record and Sunday News:

•Best Community Service on a Media-Affiliated Website (under 1 million unique monthly visitors) for Finding Their Way Out which continued to track the impact of the Red Lion school shooting of 2003.

The New Haven Register in New Haven, Conn. and The Daily Freeman in Kingston, N.Y.:

•Best Crowd Sourcing/Citizen Journalism (under 1 million unique monthly visitors) for coverage of Hurricane Irene where both newsrooms utilized multiple crowdsourcing methods to keep area residents informed of flooding, power outages and storm damage during the days and weeks following the hurricane.

About Digital First Media
Digital First Media (www.DigitalFirstMedia.com) is headquartered in New York City, and jointly manages MediaNews Group and Journal Register Company. Digital First Media reaches 61.5 million Americans each month through more than 800 multi-platform products across 18 states.

About MediaNews Group, Inc.
MediaNews Group, Inc. (www.medianewsgroup.com) is the nation's second largest newspaper company as measured by circulation, with headquarters in Denver, Colorado. MediaNews Group and its affiliated companies publish 57 daily newspapers and more than 100 non-daily publications in 11 states.

About Journal Register Company
Journal Register Company is a leader in local news and information in 10 states. The Company's more than 350 multi-platform products reach an audience of 21 million people each month. For more information visit the company website at www.JournalRegister.com.

About Digital First Ventures
Digital First Ventures (DFV) is focused on helping media entrepreneurs incubate, accelerate and validate their start-up companies in the news, content, sales and audience development space. As a division of Digital First Media -- which operates more than 800 media products serving 61.5 million customers each month and annual revenues of more than $1.4 billion -- DFV is ideally suited to accelerate value creation for media start-ups.



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For more information contact:
Jonathan Cooper
Vice President Media Relations & Employee Communications
Digital First Media
jcooper@digitalfirstmedia.com
(215) 867-2022