Alma Media - Company Announcement

Alma Media Corporation has set a buy order in Helsinki Stock Exhange for Talentum Oyj shares at EUR 1,85 per share

Alma Media Corporation   Stock Exchange Release   12 August 2009 at
13:40

ALMA MEDIA CORPORATION HAS SET A BUY ORDER IN HELSINKI STOCK EXHANGE
FOR TALENTUM OYJ SHARES AT EUR 1.85 PER SHARE

NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION IN AUSTRALIA, HONG KONG, JAPAN, SOUTH AFRICA,
CANADA OR THE UNITED STATES

Alma Media Corporation ("Alma Media" or the "Company") has on 10
August 2009 set a buy order in NASDAQ OMX Helsinki stock exchange for
approximately eight million Talentum shares at a time. The buy order
is connected with the company's mandatory tender for all shares in
Talentum Oyj, according to Chapter 6, Section 10 of the Securities
Market Act, announced on 10 August 2009, The price limit for the
share purchases is 1.85 euros, which equals to the cash consideration
to be offered in the mandatory tender offer.

It is Alma Media's intention to preserve the buy order in force at
most up until the end of the offer period in the mandatory tender
offer, approximately 15 September 2009.

Alma Media Corporation
Rauno Heinonen
Vice President, Corporate Communications and IR

Additional information:
Kai Telanne, President and CEO, tel. +358 10 665 3500

DISTRIBUTION
NASDAQ OMX Helsinki
Main media

This release must not be released or otherwise distributed, in whole
or in part, in or into Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, South Africa,
Canada or the United States. This release is not a tender offer
document and as such does not constitute an offer or invitation to
make a sales offer. Investors shall accept the Tender Offer for the
shares only on the basis of the information provided in a tender
offer document. Offers will not be made directly or indirectly in any
jurisdiction where either an offer or participation therein is
prohibited by applicable law or where any tender offer document or
registration or other requirements would apply in addition to those
undertaken in Finland.

The Tender Offer is not being made in any jurisdiction where
prohibited by applicable law and the tender offer document and
related acceptance forms will not and may not be distributed,
forwarded or transmitted into or from any jurisdiction where
prohibited by applicable law. In particular, the Tender Offer is not
being made, directly or indirectly, in or into, or by use of the
postal service of, or by any means or instrumentality (including,
without limitation, facsimile transmission, telex, telephone or the
Internet) of interstate or foreign commerce of, or any facilities of
a national securities exchange of, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, South
Africa, Canada or the United States. The Tender Offer cannot be
accepted by any such use, means or instrumentality or from within
Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, South Africa, Canada or the United
States.

Alma Media in brief

Alma Media is a profitably growing and internationally expanding
company that invests in the future of newspapers and online media.
Its best known products are the Aamulehti, Iltalehti, Kauppalehti and
Etuovi.com.

Net sales in 2008 totalled EUR 341 million and the operating margin
was over 14%. The company's share is listed in the Mid Cap segment of
the NASDAQ OMX Helsinki. Please visit www.almamedia.com for further
information.