Alma Media Corporation will terminate the buy order in Helsinki Stock Exchange as the tender offer for Talentum shares has commenced

Alma Media Corporation   Stock Exchange Release   20 August 2009 at
8:30

ALMA MEDIA CORPORATION WILL TERMINATE THE BUY ORDER IN HELSINKI STOCK
EXCHANGE AS THE TENDER OFFER FOR TALENTUM SHARES HAS COMMENCED

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

Alma Media Corporation ("Alma Media") announced on 10 August 2009
that it will make a mandatory tender offer for all of the issued and
outstanding shares in Talentum Oyj ("Talentum") (the "Tender Offer").
The Tender Offer commenced on 19 August 2009 at 9.30 a.m. (Finnish
time) and will end on 15 September 2009 at 4.00 p.m. (Finnish time)
unless the Tender Offer is extended or discontinued in accordance
with its terms and conditions. The price offered for each share in
Talentum validly tendered in accordance with the terms and conditions
of the Tender Offer is EUR 1.85 in cash.

On 12 August 2009, Alma Media announced that it has set a buy order
in NASDAQ OMX Helsinki stock exchange for approximately eight million
Talentum shares at a time and that the buy order is connected with
the Tender Offer. The price limit for the share purchases was equal
to the cash consideration offered in the Tender Offer (EUR 1.85).
Alma Media has resolved that this buy order shall be terminated as of
today, due to the commencement of the offer period of the Tender
Offer.

Alma Media Corporation
Rauno Heinonen
Corporate Communications and IR

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

DISTRIBUTION
NASDAQ OMX Helsinki
Main media

Alma Media in brief

Alma Media is a profitable 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.

This release may 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.