Scott A. Wright

Scott A. Wright, age 44, is President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company, a position he has held since September 2007. Mr. Wright has extensive newspaper industry experience starting in 1987. Before joining the Company in April 2007, he was President and Publisher at Suburban Community Newspapers located in Memphis, Tennessee. From 2004 to 2006, Mr. Wright was Publisher of Star Community Newspapers in Plano, Texas. In 2003 and 2004, Mr. Wright was Vice President and General Manager at the Oakland Press in Pontiac, Michigan under 21st Century Newspapers. Mr. Wright was Advertising Director from 1999 to 2000 at The Suburban Journals of Greater St. Louis while it was owned by Journal Register Company and Vice President from 2001 to 2003 at The Suburban Journals of Greater St. Louis while it was owned by Pulitzer Inc. From 1998 to 1999 Mr. Wright was Corporate Advertising Director for Ottaway Newspapers, Inc. in Campbell Hall, New York and from 1993 - 1997 he was the Advertising Director for Ottaway Newspapers' Joplin Globe in Joplin, Missouri. Mr. Wright graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications from the University of Southern Indiana.