On May 13, 2016, Gannett Co., Inc. filed a preliminary proxy statement soliciting proxies and urged the shareholders of Tribune Publishing Company to withhold their votes from the election of each of the Company’s nominees: Carol Crenshaw, Justin C. Dearborn, David E. Dibble, Michael W. Ferro, Philip G. Franklin, Eddy W. Hartenstein, Richard A. Reck, and Donald Tang to the Company’s Board of Directors at the Company’s annual shareholders meeting scheduled to be held on June 2, 2016.