EXHIBIT 21.1


               LIST OF SUBSIDIARIES OF JOURNAL REGISTER COMPANY

The following is a list of the  corporations  that are  subsidiaries  of Journal
Register Company, a Delaware corporation. If indented, the corporation listed is
a wholly-owned subsidiary of the corporation under which it is listed.

NAME OF CORPORATION                                      STATE OF
                                                       INCORPORATION

Journal News, Inc.                                        Delaware
   Journal Register East, Inc.(1)                         Delaware
      Northeast Publishing Company, Inc.(2)               Delaware
         Central Acquisition, LLC                         Delaware
            Mark I Communications                         Delaware
                  The Goodson Holding Company(3)          Delaware
      OMMA Acquisition, LLC                               Delaware
         Mark Goodson Enterprises, Ltd.(4)                New York
      New Haven Register, LLC(5)                          Delaware
      Suburban Newspapers of Greater St. Louis, LLC(6)    Delaware
      The Saratogian, LLC(7)                              Delaware
                                                       
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(1) Doing  business as The Herald,  The Herald  Press,  The Bristol  Press,  The
Register Citizen,  Shore Line Times,  Pictorial Gazette,  The Dolphin,  Branford
Review,  Clinton  Recorder,  Regional  Standard,  Regional  Express,  The County
Trader,  Pennysaver,  Shoreliner West, Shoreliner East, Shoreliner Shopper East,
Shoreliner Shopper West, Milford Reporter, Milford Sunday, Hamden Chronicle, The
Stratford Bard, The Post, The Orange Bulletin, The Advertiser,  West Haven News,
West Hartford News,  Weathersfield Post,  Newington Town Crier, Windsor Journal,
Valley News, Rocky Hill Post,  Bloomfield Journal,  Windsor Locks Journal,  East
Hartford Gazette,  Thomaston  Express,  Connecticut's  County Kids,  Tradewinds,
Rhode  Island  Homes,  Homes  Pictorial,   Hartford  Homes,  Springfield  Homes,
Foothills Trader, Daily Local News, The Phoenix, The Suburban & Wayne Times, The
Suburban  Advertiser,  The King of Prussia Courier,  The Village News, The Times
Record,  The  Tri-County  Record,  The Tri-County  Record-Pottstown,  The Weekly
Saver,  The  Record,  The  Narragansett  Times,  The  Standard  Times,  The East
Greenwich  Pendulum,  The Chariho  Times,  The  Coventry  Courier,  The Westerly
Shopper, The Telegraph,  US Express,  Press Plus, Herald Extra, Voice,  Township
Voice,  Suburban  Extra,  Alton  Cover  Story,  Edwardsville  Cover  Story,  The
Independent and Quality Time.

(2) Doing business as The News-Herald,  The Morning Journal, The Times Reporter,
The Herald News, The Call, The Times, Closer Look, Chatter,  Express Line, Cover
Story, Cumberland Cover Story, Cover Story (The Herald News) and Times Plus.

(3)  Doing business as The Mercury, Penny Pincher Shoppers, Daily Times, Times
Extra, US Express and Marketplace.

(4)  Doing business as the Daily Freeman.

(5)  Doing business as the New Haven Register, Valley Express, Shoreline
Express and Hamden Express.

(6) Doing business as the  Cahokia-Dupo  Journal,  Collinsville  Herald Journal,
County  Journal,  Edwardsville  Journal,  Granite City Press Record,  Enterprise
Journal,  O'Fallon Journal,  Belleville Journal,  Collinsville  Herald, East St.
Louis News Journal, Fairview Heights Journal, Granite City Press Record Journal,
Clarion  Journal,  Granite  City  Journal,  Central  West End  Journal,  Citizen
Journal, Jefferson County Journal, Meramec Journal, News Democrat Journal, Press
Journal,  South County  Journal,  Southwest City Journal,  St. Charles  Journal,
Tri-County  Journal,  Webster-Kirkwood  Journal,  County  Star  Journal  - (East
Edition),   County  Star  Journal  -  (West   Edition),   West  County  Journal,
Chesterfield Journal, Mid-County Journal, North Side Journal, Oakville-Mehlville
Journal, South City Journal,  South Side Journal,  Southwest County Journal, St.
Peters Journal,  Warrenton  Journal,  Wentzville  Journal,  North County Journal
(East Edition),  North County Journal (West  Edition),  West County Kids and St.
Charles County Kids.

(7) Doing business as The Saratoginan and Community News.