Journal Register Company Acquires Suburban Lifestyles Community Newspaper Group.

TRENTON, N.J. -- Journal Register Company (NYSE:JRC) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Robert M. Jelenic announced today the Company's acquisition of the Suburban Lifestyles Community Newspaper group, based in Rochester Hills, Michigan.

Eight editions of the Suburban Lifestyles Community Newspaper group are distributed to approximately 170,000 homes and businesses each week in the upscale Oakland County communities of Rochester, Rochester Hills, Troy, Oakland Township, Oxford, Lake Orion, Auburn Hills, Farmington, Farmington Hills and Novi, and the fast growing Macomb County communities of Romeo, Shelby Township and Washington Township.

The Suburban Lifestyles Community Newspaper group traces its history to 1993, when it was launched in Rochester, Michigan. The Suburban Lifestyles Community Newspaper group focuses on the local news and information in each of its communities.

"We are very pleased to welcome the Suburban Lifestyles Community Newspaper group to our Michigan and Metro-Detroit area group of publications," said Jelenic. "Anjali Nanda and her staff have developed the Suburban Lifestyles newspapers into a fine group of community newspapers that are distributed in many of the affluent and growing neighborhoods of Oakland and Macomb Counties. We look forward to continuing to build on their historical successes."

Anjali Nanda, President of the Suburban Lifestyles Community Newspaper group, commented, "We are pleased to join the Journal Register Company's family of Michigan cluster publications. We look forward to expanding the opportunities available to our employees as part of a larger and very successful organization. Journal Register Company's expertise and synergy will only add to the great product that the Suburban Lifestyles Community Newspaper group has developed and we are confident that, together, we will provide our advertisers greater options coupled with the same great customer service they have become accustomed to. We will continue providing high quality local community news that our readers anticipate receiving in their mailboxes and we plan to continue our long relationship with our vendors. We are confident that the changes we carry out will be for the benefit of the various stakeholders. The Suburban Lifestyles Community Newspaper group is a very important part of our lives and we look forward to participating in this new phase of its growth strategy."

The Suburban Lifestyles Community Newspaper group had revenues of approximately $2.2 million dollars in 2005. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

The Suburban Lifestyles Community Newspaper group will be incorporated into Journal Register's Michigan cluster, which includes four daily newspapers in Michigan: The Oakland Press, The Macomb Daily, The Daily Tribune in Royal Oak, and the Morning Sun in Mount Pleasant. Publications in Journal Register's Michigan cluster also include several non-daily publication groups including the Heritage Newspapers south and west of Detroit, the County Press group based in Lapeer, and The Advisor and Source newspapers in Macomb County.

Journal Register Company is a leading U.S. newspaper publishing company. Journal Register Company owns 27 daily newspapers, including the New Haven Register, Connecticut's second largest daily and Sunday newspaper, and 354 non-daily publications. Journal Register Company currently operates 218 individual Web sites that are affiliated with the Company's daily newspapers, non-daily publications and its recently acquired network of employment Web sites. These Web sites can be accessed at www.journalregister.com. All of the Company's operations are strategically clustered in seven geographic areas: Greater Philadelphia; Michigan; Connecticut; Greater Cleveland; New England; and the Capital-Saratoga and Mid-Hudson regions of New York. The Company owns JobsInTheUS, a network of six premier employment Web sites in New England and has an investment in PowerOne Media, LLC, a leading provider of online solutions for newspapers, hosting the largest online newspaper network in the U.S.

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