TRIBUNE COMPANY PRESS RELEASE

July 2, 2007

Tribune Announces Special Shareholder Meeting

CHICAGO, July 2, 2007 -- Tribune Company (NYSE:TRB) today announced that
a special shareholders meeting will be held on Tuesday, August 21, to
consider approval of the merger agreement entered into in connection
with the company’s previously announced going-private transaction.
Shareholders of record at the close of business on July 12, 2007, will
be entitled to vote at the meeting.

The special meeting will be held in Chicago, Illinois.  The exact time
and location of the meeting will be announced in the definitive proxy
materials for the meeting, which will be filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission and sent to shareholders of record later this
month.