LOS ANGELES TIMES JOINS McCLATCHY-TRIBUNE INFORMATION SERVICES AS MARQUE PROVIDER

LOS ANGELES TIMES JOINS McCLATCHY-TRIBUNE INFORMATION SERVICES AS MARQUE PROVIDER


Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service To Be Dissolved

CHICAGO, October, 2009—McClatchy-Tribune Information Services (MCT), a joint venture of the McClatchy and Tribune Companies, today announced the incorporation of the Los Angeles Times (The Times) into MCT Information Services. Effective January 1, 2010, the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service (LATWP) will cease operations.

Upon the close of the LATWP News Service, the Los Angeles Times will become one of MCT’s premier providers with some of the best multimedia entertainment, world and national news, business, features, sports and technology coverage available in the United States and abroad. This move will make MCT the world’s leading supplemental news service.

The Times’ world-renowned journalism and 127-year history of excellence promises MCT customers access to first-hand reporting from 13 foreign bureaus, Hollywood, inside Washington’s beltway and next year’s Olympics and World Cup events, alongside fashion and style, health, travel and food news and information.

With contributions from 600-plus contributors worldwide, MCT provides news articles, feature stories, photos, graphics, illustrations, caricatures, themed content packages and paginated products. MCT material is also produced by its own staff in the United States and Europe, and supplied to more than 1,200 media clients across the country and internationally. MCT is a major provider of content to online information services.

MCT products are marketed worldwide by Tribune Media Services (TMS), the global content-licensing unit of Tribune Company.

“Tribune Media Services is pleased with the opportunity to have the Los Angeles Times world-renowned brand become part of our service,” said David D. Williams, president and CEO of Tribune Media Services. “We are committed to finding ways to make the service a more valuable resource for our customers, and the inclusion of The Times increases the depth and breadth of coverage we offer.”

“The need for the type of quality content MCT provides its customers continues to grow,” said Gary Pruitt, CEO for The McClatchy Company. “MCT is delighted to have such an expert, award-winning news organization as the Los Angeles Times enhance our service.”

The initial date for incorporating Los Angeles Times content is scheduled for January 1, 2010.

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About The McClatchy Company

The McClatchy Company is the third largest newspaper company in the United States, with 30 daily newspapers, approximately 50 non-dailies, and direct marketing and direct mail operations. McClatchy also operates leading local websites in each of its markets which extend its audience reach. The websites offer users comprehensive news and information, advertising, e-commerce and other services. Together with its newspapers and direct marketing products, these interactive operations make McClatchy the leading local media company in each of its premium high growth markets. McClatchy-owned newspapers include The Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Kansas City Star, the Charlotte Observer, and The (Raleigh) News & Observer.

McClatchy also owns a portfolio of premium digital assets, including 14.4% of CareerBuilder, the nation's largest online job site, 25.6% of Classified Ventures, a newspaper industry partnership that offers two of the nation's premier classified websites: the auto website, cars.com, and the rental site, apartments.com and 33.3% of HomeFinder, LLC which operates the real estate website HomeFinder.com. McClatchy is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol MNI.

About Tribune Media Services and Tribune Company

Tribune Media Services (TMS), a subsidiary of Tribune Company, is a leading provider of information and entertainment products for print, electronic and on-air media in the United States and abroad. It distributes TV and movie listings and related editorial content under the TMS and Zap2it brands; syndicates comics, editorial cartoons, features and opinion columns; creates and distributes a variety of online information products; licenses editorial content from national periodicals; and manages national advertising networks. TMS also markets news, features, information graphics and multimedia content to media clients around the world through the McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For more information, visit www.tmsfeatures.com.

TRIBUNE is America’s largest employee-owned media company, operating businesses in publishing, interactive and broadcasting. In publishing, Tribune’s leading daily newspapers include the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun, Sun-Sentinel (South Florida), Orlando Sentinel, Hartford Courant, Morning Call and Daily Press. The company’s broadcasting group operates 23 television stations, WGN America on national cable, Chicago’s WGN-AM and the Chicago Cubs baseball team. Popular news and information websites complement Tribune’s print and broadcast properties and extend the company’s nationwide audience. At Tribune we take what we do seriously and with a great deal of pride. We also value the creative spirit and nurture a corporate culture that doesn’t take itself too seriously.

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For more information, contact:

Rossana Badillo M.
Ph: +1316 665 6387
rbadillo@tribune.com