Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
                             One Battery Park Plaza
                            New York, New York 10004

                                  March 5, 2004




MediaNews Group, Inc.
1560 Broadway, Suite 2100
Denver, CO 80202

      Re:   MediaNews Group, Inc. - Registration Statement on Form S-4
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Ladies and Gentlemen:

            We have acted as your counsel in connection with the Registration
Statement on Form S-4 (the "Registration Statement") to be filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "Act"), in respect of the registration under the Act of the 6 3/8%
Senior Subordinated Notes due 2014 (the "New Notes"), to be offered in exchange
for all outstanding 6 3/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2014 (the "Old
Notes"), issued pursuant to an indenture (the "Indenture") between MediaNews
Group, Inc. (the "Company") and The Bank of New York, as trustee (the
"Trustee"), dated as of January 26, 2004.

            In connection with this opinion letter, we have examined: the
Registration Statement, including the Prospectus which forms a part of the
Registration Statement, the Indenture, the forms of Old Note and New Note, and
originals, or copies certified or otherwise identified to our satisfaction, of
such other documents, records, instruments and certificates of public officials
as we have deemed necessary or appropriate to enable us to render this opinion.
In addition, we have assumed: (i) that all signatures are genuine, (ii) that all
documents submitted to us as originals are genuine, (iii) that all copies
submitted to us conform to the originals, (iv) that the Indenture has been duly
authorized, executed and delivered by all parties thereto (other than the
Company) and is the legal, valid, binding and enforceable agreement of all
parties thereto (other than the Company) and (v) that the Old Notes were duly
and validly authenticated and delivered by the Trustee pursuant to the terms of
the Indenture.

            We are members of the bar of the State of New York, and the opinion
set forth below is restricted to matters controlled by federal laws, the laws of
the State of New York and the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

            Based on the foregoing, it is our opinion that, when (i) the
applicable provisions of the Act and such "Blue Sky" or other state securities
laws as may be applicable shall have been complied with and (ii) the New Notes,
in the form included in the Indenture, have been duly executed and authenticated
in accordance with the Indenture, and duly issued and delivered by the Company
in exchange for an equal principal amount of Old Notes pursuant to the terms of
the exchange offer described in the Registration Statement, the New Notes will
be legally issued and will be binding obligations of the Company, subject to (a)
limitations imposed by bankruptcy, reorganization, moratorium, insolvency,
fraudulent conveyance, fraudulent transfer, preferential transfer and other laws

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of general application relating to or affecting the enforceability of creditors'
rights and to general principles of equity, including, without limitation,
reasonableness, good faith and fair dealing, and considerations of
impracticability or impossibility or performance and defenses based upon
unconscionability (regardless of whether such enforceability is considered or
applied in a proceeding in equity or at law) and (b) the qualifications that the
remedy of specific performance and injunctive and other forms of equitable
relief may be subject to equitable defenses and to the discretion of the court
before which any proceeding therefor may be brought.

            We hereby consent to the filing of this opinion as an exhibit to the
Registration Statement and to the reference to this firm under the heading
"Legal Matters" in the Prospectus included in the Registration Statement. In
giving such consent, we do not thereby admit that we are "experts" within the
meaning of the Act or the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange
Commission issued thereunder with respect to any part of the Registration
Statement, including this exhibit.


                                    Very truly yours,



                                    /s/ Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP