Newspaper Association of America Announces Appointments to Board of Directors

Arlington, Va. - Mark G. Contreras, senior vice president/newspapers of The E.W. Scripps Company and chairman of the Newspaper Association of America, today announced the appointments of Tony Hunter, president, publisher and chief executive officer of Chicago Tribune Company and Gregory J. Osberg, publisher and chief executive officer of Philadelphia Media Network, Inc. to NAA's Board of Directors. Both directors replace members of the NAA Board that had left their respective companies.

At Chicago Tribune Company, Hunter is recognized for leading a far-reaching culture change and fast transformation of a traditional newspaper company into one of the nation's most diversified innovative media entities. Since taking over the company's leadership in September 2008, he has overseen a strategy to diversify into digital media and business services channels while also reasserting Chicago Tribune's role as leading citizen of Illinois.

Hunter previously served as senior vice president/circulation and operations for Chicago Tribune, where he secured an unprecedented distribution agreement with the Sun Times News Group to distribute the cross-town rival Chicago Sun-Times. As Chicago Tribune's vice president/operations from 2003 to 2007, he led two major expansions at the newspaper's near-west side "Freedom Center" printing plant: to expand color printing capacity and improve the targeting of preprinted advertising inserts.

Prior to his time at Philadelphia Media Network, Inc., Osberg served as president and CEO of Buzzwire, where he led the mobile media company's development of a new business model to deliver news and other content on the mobile Web. He has spent 30 years in the news business, including leadership positions with The Washington Post Company, CNET, and U.S. News and World Report.

While at The Washington Post Company, Osberg was the president and worldwide publisher of Newsweek and Newsweek.com, where he re-launched Newsweek.com. He was at Newsweek from 2000 to 2008. During that time, Osberg managed a strategic partnership with MSNBC.com and MSN that resulted in Newsweek.com becoming the world's largest newsmagazine website. In 2005, he received Adweek's Executive Team (Publisher/Editor) of the Year award.

NAA is a nonprofit organization representing nearly 2,000 newspapers and their multiplatform businesses in the U.S. and Canada. NAA members include daily newspapers, as well as non-dailies, other print publications and online products. Headquartered near Washington, D.C., in Arlington, Va., the Association focuses on the major issues that affect today's newspaper industry: public policy/legal matters, advertising revenue growth and audience development across the medium's broad portfolio of products and digital platforms. Information about NAA and the industry also may be found at www.naa.org.