The company will broadcast its second quarter 2009 analyst conference call on 12 August 2009, at 11:00 a.m. (Eastern Time) with access available through the Internet and telephone. The teleconference is expected to last one hour. Richard D. Willett, Jr., president and chief executive officer, will review operating performance, and David J. Prystash, senior vice president and chief financial officer, will review the financial results.

The live conference call and presentation slides may be accessed on the NewPage Web site at www.NewPageCorp.com . Click on the link to the Conference Call and Webcast and follow the instructions to access the webcast in listen and view mode. Participants should go to the Web site at least one hour before to the call to register and download and install any necessary audio software.

The call will be available live and stored on the Web site for five weeks.

Analysts and i nvestors may access the call by dialing (866) 244-4530 (toll-free domestic ) or (703) 639-1173 (international), conference ID 1327917. A replay of the call can be accessed via telephone (888) 266-2081 (toll-f ree domestic) or (703) 925-2533 (international), access code 1327917. The replay will be available starting at 2 p.m. (Eastern Time) on 12 August  2009, and will remain available until midnight on 16 September 2009 .

Headquartered in Miamisburg, Ohio, NewPage Corporation is the largest coated paper manufacturer in North America, based on production capacity, with USD 4.4 billion in net sales for the year ended 31 December 2008. The company's product portfolio is the broadest in North America and includes coated freesheet, coated groundwood, supercalendered, newsprint, and specialty papers. These papers are used for corporate collateral, commercial printing, magazines, catalogs, books, coupons, inserts, newspapers, packaging applications, and direct mail advertising.

NewPage owns paper mills in Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin in the United States, and in Nova Scotia, Canada. These mills have a total annual production capacity of approximately 4.4 million tons of paper, including approximately 3.2 million tons of coated paper, approximately 1.0 million tons of uncoated paper, and approximately 200,000 tons of specialty paper.