SanomaWSOY - Changes board/management/auditors

Anu Nissinen Appointed President of SWelcom

SanomaWSOY Corp. Stock Exchange Release 7 Feb 2008 at 10:15

SanomaWSOY's Board of Directors has today appointed Anu Nissinen, M.
Sc. (Econ.) 44, as President of SWelcom and a member of SanomaWSOY's
Executive Management Group. Currently, Nissinen acts as President of
cable TV operator Welho, a business of SWelcom. Nissinen will begin
in her new position on 25 February 2008.

Anu Nissinen has worked in SWelcom since 2001. Since July 2004, she
has been President of Welho and a member of SWelcom's Management
Group. Before that she worked as Marketing Director of Helsinki
Television Ltd.

Prior to her career in SWelcom, Nissinen worked as Marketing and
Product Category Manager in Sinebrychoff, among others. Nissinen is a
Vice Chairman of Cable TV Committee in Finnish Federation for
Communications and Teleinformatics, FiCom, and a member of Cable
Europe CEO Forum.

Tapio Kallioja, 60, the current President of SWelcom, will continue
as an advisor of the Board until the end of March 2008. Kallioja will
retire according to his contract of employment on 31 March 2008.

Additional information:
Hannu Syrjänen, President and CEO, SanomaWSOY, tel. +358 105 19 5020
Anu Nissinen, President, SW Television Oy / Welho, tel. +358 9 156
5240, mobile +358 500 874 487

SANOMAWSOY CORPORATION

Matti Salmi
Senior Vice President
Finance and Administration

Additional information: SanomaWSOY's Group Communications, tel +358
105 19 5062 or ir@sanomawsoy.fi

www.sanomawsoy.fi
www.sanomawsoy.fi/Investors

SWelcom offers its customers entertaining experiences in television,
radio, internet and via mobile channels. SWelcom has five TV and two
radio channels. Welho is the leading cable TV operator in Finland and
a significant broadband service provider in the Helsinki capital
area. Online casual gaming is SWelcom's new business. SWelcom is part
of the SanomaWSOY Group, which operates in different fields of media
in over 20 European countries.