August 6, 2007

Journal Register Company Newspapers Receive Advertising and Promotions Awards

YARDLEY, PA -- Journal Register Company (NYSE: JRC) today announced that 22 of its newspapers have received a total of 67 advertising and promotions awards by the Suburban Newspapers of America (SNA). Journal Register Company once again led the field this year with 16 first place awards as well as numerous second place, third place and honorable mentions.

Among the newspapers that took first place awards were the Litchfield County Times in New Milford, Connecticut for Best Homes Special Section; The Morning Sun in Mount Pleasant, Michigan for Best Classified Advertising Special Section and Best Promotion to Build Circulation; Royal Oak Daily Tribune in Royal Oak, Michigan for Best ROP Advertising Section; Daily Oakland Press in Pontiac, Michigan for Best General Interest Promotion Special Section; Montgomery Newspapers in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania for Best Public Service Promotion; and The Morning Journal in Lorain, Ohio for Best New Advertising Section, to name a few.

Journal Register Company’s newspapers were chosen from a field of more than 1,000 entries to the 2007 SNA Advertising and Promotions Contest open to SNA members and non-members alike.

The 2007 Advertising and Promotions Contest judging was conducted by notable advertising executives from industry leaders like Vertis Media, Davis Advertising, Newspaper Association of America, and JWT Communications.

Winners will be recognized in the October issue of Editor & Publisher and also at the SNA Fall Publishers and Advertising Directors Conference, being held October 2-5, 2007 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

A listing of all Journal Register Company’s awards follow.

About Journal Register Company

Journal Register Company is a leading U.S. media company. Journal Register Company owns 22
daily newspapers and 346 non-daily publications. Journal Register Company currently operates 226
individual Web sites that are affiliated with the Company's daily newspapers, non-daily publications
and its 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 six
geographic areas: Greater Philadelphia; Michigan; Connecticut; Greater Cleveland; and the Capital-
Saratoga and Mid-Hudson regions of New York. The Company owns JobsInTheUS, a network of
19 premier employment Web sites.

Safe-Harbor

This release contains forward-looking information about Journal Register Company that is intended to be covered by the safe harbor for forward-looking statements provided by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts. These statements can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “believe,” “expect,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “project,” “plan,” “seek,” “intend,” or “anticipate” or the negative thereof or comparable terminology, and include discussions of strategy, financial projections and estimates and their underlying assumptions, the extent or timing of cost savings, charges, the extent of employees impacted, and statements about the future performance, operations, products and services of the Company. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ materially. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the success of the Company's acquisition strategy, dispositions, the ability of the Company to achieve cost reductions and integrate acquisitions, competitive pressures including competition from non-newspaper forms of media , general or regional economic conditions and advertising trends, the unavailability or a material increase in the price of newsprint and increases in interest rates, changes in performance that affect financial covenant compliance or funds available for borrowing, technological changes, the adoption of new accounting standards or changes in accounting standards. These and additional risk factors are outlined in the Company's most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

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For more information:

Journal Register Company 790 Township Line Road Yardley, PA 19067 (215) 504-4200 voice; (215) 504-4201 fax

Judy Brenna Director, Investor Relations jbrenna@journalregister.com