JobsInTheUS.com Receives National Honors for the Company's Career Connection Newsletter

WESTBROOK, Maine, April 20 /PRNewswire/ -- JobsInTheUS.com has been announced as a winner in the League of American Communications Professionals' 2006 Inspire Awards Newsletter and Magazine Competition. JobsInME.com's Career Connection Newsletter received high honors in the Electronic/Monthly (Community) category. JobsInTheUS.com is one of the largest Internet recruiting companies in the Northeast with nearly two million unique visits in the month of January 2007. JobsInTheUS.com is owned by Journal Register Company , and operates 19 local job internet sites including JobsInMS.com (Mississippi), JobsInAL.com (Alabama), JobsInME.com (Maine), JobsInNH.com (New Hampshire), JobsInVT.com (Vermont) and JobsInRI.com (Rhode Island) and others.

"More than 425 entries were received for the 2006 Inspire Awards," said Christine Kennedy, LACP Managing Director, "comprising newsletters and magazines from seven countries. This year's winning entry, JobsInME.com Career Connection Newsletter, proved to be remarkable in light of tremendous competition."

Kennedy, speaking directly about some of the categories being judged, added, "The first impression presented by this project is excellent, and the artwork and ease of readability are very good and excellent, respectively. We consider the level of creativity exhibited to be very good, which is supported by outstanding clarity and overall navigation of the publication." Frontier Airlines and the U.S. Postal Service were among the other winners in this same category. JobsInME.com earned a total score of 85 (of the competition's maximum 98 points) and received high honors. A list of all the winners can be found at http://www.lacp.com/2006inspire .

The JobsInME.com Career Connection Newsletter features informative articles on human resources topics as well as tips and information to help job seekers through the process of finding a new job. JobsInTheUS.com produces a Career Connection Newsletter for each state-specific site, where it is sent via e-mail to all employers and posted on the web site for job seekers.

"We believe the mission of our company is not only to bring job seekers and employers together online but also to educate and inform our customers as well," said Matt Hoffner, President of JobsInTheUS.com. "Our Newsletter is just one of the many ways we try to enhance our users' experience with our web site. Ideally, it should go hand-in-hand with the information and tools we provide to help educate and streamline both the hiring and job search processes."

Since the creation of its first site, JobsInME.com, JobsInTheUS.com has seen rapid growth. With over 40,000 job openings posted in the 4th quarter of 2006, and now nearly 2,000,000 unique visits in January 2007, JobsInTheUS.com is one of the largest Internet job sites in the northeast United States and serves more than 20,000 employers.

About JobsInTheUS

Founded in 1999, JobsInTheUS is one of the fastest-growing local job Internet sites -- both in terms of unique visits to the Web sites and jobs posted. Headquartered in Westbrook, Maine, the company specializes in state- specific job Internet sites where qualified candidates who want to work in a particular state find a match with local employers at a lower cost for employers than other recruiting methods. JobsInTheUS operates JobsInME.com, JobsInNH.com, JobsInVT.com, JobsInRI.com, JobsInMA.com, JobsInCT.com, JobsInDE.com, JobsInAL.com, JobsInLouisiana.com, JobsInMS.com, JobsInKS.com, JobsInMD.com, JobsInDC.com, JobsInVA.com, JobsInWV.com, JobsInDC.com and JobsInAK.com.

About Journal Register Company

Journal Register Company is a leading U.S. media company. Journal Register Company owns 22 daily newspapers and 344 non-daily publications. Journal Register Company currently operates 222 individual Web sites that are affiliated with the Company's daily newspapers, non-daily publications and its network of employment Web sites. These Web sites can be accessed at http://www.journalregister.com/ . All of the Company's operations are strategically clustered in six geographic areas: Greater Philadelphia; Michigan; Connecticut; Greater Cleveland; and the Capital-Saratoga and Mid-Hudson regions of New York. The Company owns JobsInTheUS, a network of 19 premier employment Web sites.

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