SHOPLOCAL.COM APPOINTS NEW DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Chicago- August 14, 2006 – ShopLocal.com, a leading provider of Web-to-store Internet shopping services, has named Brad Jaehn Director of Product Management. Jaehn’s responsibilities include maintaining the product direction, features, functionality and customer experience on the ShopLocal.com Web site and all associated products.

Jaehn, 31, most recently served as the business development consultant for G2 Switch Works, where he handled product development and supplier strategy for hospitality and ground transportation. Prior to that position, Jaehn was director of product management for Orbitz/Cendant Travel Distribution for five years, where he worked on the company’s affiliated merchant hotel program. He also spent three years at ATPCO, last serving as a business analyst of the Dulles, Va.-based company.

“My role will be to help continue to distinguish ShopLocal.com as the number one online shopping resource for consumers across the country by striving for a clean and simple-to-use Web site where eCommerce and local store items are seamlessly integrated,” said Jaehn.

Jaehn has a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. He also attended French Pastry School in Chicago. He resides with his wife, Wendy, and their son, Hunter, in the city’s North Center neighborhood.

ShopLocal, LLC offers the Web’s most comprehensive multi-channel shopping resource for consumers and sales opportunities site for retailers. With ShopLocal.com and The ShopLocal Network – made up of more than 200 affiliate media, search and shopping sites – consumers have access to the only Web site with information on products from local stores side-by-side with e-commerce options. With ShopLocal’s SmartCircular, SmartCatalog and SmartMedia service, retailers can distribute sales and promotional content on the site as well as through their own Web sites, integrating e-commerce and local, in-store promotions.

Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE:GCI), Tribune Company (NYSE:TRB), and The McClatchy Company. (NYSE:MNI), are partners in ShopLocal and other joint ventures to provide consumers online products such as CareerBuilder.com, Cars.com and Apartments.com.

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