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The San Diego Union-Tribune

Media & Communications · Private Transactions · Acquired in March 2009

San Diego County’s leading local media company, with products reaching 58 percent of all San Diego adults in a given week.

Platinum Equity Portfolio Company The San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper.

Key facts:

  • In 2008 received first place award from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for General Excellence among major California dailies.
  • Won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartoons.
  • SignOnSanDiego.com is the leading online source for local news, entertainment information and classifieds.
“...we believe that Platinum Equity is the right partner for the Union-Tribune, its employees and the San Diego community.” Harold W. Fuson, Jr., Executive Vice President, Copley Press