Hollinger International Today Becomes Sun-Times Media Group

New NYSE Ticker Symbol is SVN 


NEW YORK, July 17  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hollinger International Inc. today announced that, effective immediately, the Company has changed its name to Sun-Times Media Group, Inc.  Its ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange is now SVN, and the Company's new website address is http://www.thesuntimesgroup.com/.

"We are very pleased to be operating under our new name, Sun-Times Media Group. This change reflects our focus on delivering the highest quality local news and information in the Chicago area through our range of media properties, and also that our Company is looking to our future rather than the past," said Chief Executive Officer Gordon A. Paris. "Our focus at Sun-Times Media Group is capitalizing on the strength of the local news and information we deliver and our broad reach throughout Chicago for the benefit of our readers, advertisers and ultimately our employees and shareholders."

About Sun-Times Media Group

Sun-Times Media Group, Inc. (NYSE:SVN), formerly Hollinger International Inc., is a newspaper publisher whose assets include The Chicago Sun-Times and more than 100 community newspapers in the Chicago area.

  Contacts:
  Molly Morse / Jeremy Fielding
  Kekst and Company
  212-521-4826/4825
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DATASOURCE: Sun-Times Media Group, Inc.



CONTACT:  Molly Morse, [phone], , or Jeremy

Fielding, [phone], , both of Kekst and

Company for Sun-Times Media Group, Inc. 



Web site:  http://www.thesuntimesgroup.com/ 

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