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TNI Partners Names Michael Jameson President and CEO ST. LOUIS, Dec. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Pulitzer Inc. today announced that Michael Jameson has been named president and CEO of TNI Partners, the newspaper agency partnership of Pulitzer and Gannett Co., Inc. , in Tucson, Ariz., effective January 5. TNI Partners handles the business operations of the Arizona Daily Star, a morning and Sunday newspaper owned by Pulitzer, and the Tucson Citizen, an afternoon paper owned by Gannett. Jameson, 48, has been involved in various aspects of the newspaper business for nearly 25 years. For the past three years he has been president of the River Valley Newspaper Group in Wisconsin and publisher of the La Crosse Tribune, which is part of Lee Enterprises, Inc. In that position, he was responsible for two daily newspapers, eight paid weeklies, and a number of additional publications and online operations. From 1993 through 2000, Jameson was vice president and general manager of Madison Newspapers Inc., a dual ownership between Lee Enterprises and the Capital Times Corporation, where he was responsible for all of the agency's business operations and specialty products. Mark G. Contreras, senior vice president of Pulitzer Inc., said, "Mike's deep experience and record of accomplishment in newspaper publishing make him an ideal leader for the Tucson agency. He knows our business well, and has demonstrated success in integrating print and online operations to grow audience and produce results for advertisers. Importantly, his work at Madison Newspapers gave him hands-on experience running a newspaper agency partnership similar in size to TNI Partners in Tucson. And finally, Mike's inclusive and participatory leadership style makes him a great fit with TNI and with Pulitzer. We are very pleased he has agreed to join us." "I am very excited by the opportunity to join TNI," Jameson said. "Tucson is an exceptional market where Gannett and Pulitzer have a strong presence. I look forward to working with the great team in Tucson to realize our very substantial potential there." Prior to 1993, Jameson held a variety of sales and advertising management positions with Madison Newspapers, Inc., the Louisville Courier-Journal, and the Hartford Courant. He began his newspaper career in 1979 as an advertising representative with the Gloucester Daily Times in Gloucester, Mass., and had risen to advertising manager when he left in 1983. Pulitzer Inc., through various subsidiaries and affiliated entities, is engaged in newspaper publishing and related new media activities. The Company's newspaper operations include two major metropolitan dailies, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, Ariz., and 12 other dailies: The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.; The Daily Herald, Provo, Utah; the Santa Maria Times, Santa Maria, Calif.; The Napa Valley Register, Napa, Calif.; The World, Coos Bay, Ore.; The Sentinel, Hanford, Calif.; the Arizona Daily Sun, Flagstaff, Ariz.; the Daily Chronicle, DeKalb, Ill.; The Garden Island, Lihue, Hawaii; the Daily Journal, Park Hills, Mo.; The Lompoc Record, Lompoc, Calif.; and The Daily News, Rhinelander, Wisc. The Company's newspaper operations also include the Suburban Journals of Greater St. Louis, a group of 37 weekly papers and various niche publications. The Company's new media and interactive initiatives include STLtoday.com in St. Louis, azstarnet.com in Tucson, and Web sites for all of its other dailies. Pulitzer Inc. is the successor to the company originally founded by Joseph Pulitzer in St. Louis in 1878. For further information, visit our Web site at http://www.pulitzerinc.com/. DATASOURCE: Pulitzer Inc. CONTACT: James V. Maloney, Director of Shareholder Relations, of Pulitzer Inc., +1-314-340-8402 Web site: http://www.pulitzerinc.com/

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