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6 unusual facts about McClatchy


Bryan Monroe

Monroe was deputy managing editor at the San Jose Mercury News and was later named assistant vice president/news at Knight Ridder, where he was responsible for half of the group's 32 newsrooms, until it was sold in 2006 to McClatchy.

Burlingame Daily News

After McClatchy's acquisition of Knight Ridder in early 2006, all six Daily News editions, including the Burlingame Daily News, were bundled with the San Jose Mercury News and sold to MediaNews Group of Denver, Colorado.

East Bay Daily News

After McClatchy's acquisition of the paper's previous owner Knight Ridder in early 2006, the Palo Alto Daily News group, including the East Bay Daily News, was bundled with the San Jose Mercury News and sold to MediaNews Group of Denver, Colorado.

Los Gatos Daily News

All except the online-only Los Gatos Observer were briefly owned by the non-local McClatchy company after McClatchy's acquisition of Knight Ridder in early 2006, and are now controlled by MediaNews Group of Denver, Colorado.

Mark Weisbrot

Weisbrot writes a column on economic and policy issues that is distributed across the United States by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.

Redwood City Daily News

After McClatchy's acquisition of Knight Ridder in early 2006, all six Daily News editions, including the Redwood City Daily News, were bundled with the San Jose Mercury News and sold to MediaNews Group of Denver, Colorado.


Akron Beacon Journal

On August 2, 2006, McClatchy sold the Beacon Journal to Black Press, a Canadian company that owns over 100 newspapers, mainly weekly publications in British Columbia and Washington.

Anchorage Times

The Sacramento-based McClatchy newspaper chain, bought the Daily News that same year.

Frank Coonelly

Prior to the start of the 2007 season Bob Nutting had taken over as principal owner of the Pirates but said he was comfortable with McClatchy as the CEO.

Joe Baltake

Baltake's film reviewing career started at Gannett's suburban newspaper group, where his critiques appeared in several New Jersey-based newspapers, and continued at Knight-Ridder's The Philadelphia Daily News and McClatchy's The Sacramento Bee.

Kevin McClatchy

He led a group of investors that purchased the team in 1996, and served as the team's CEO and lead owner until 2007, when Bob Nutting took over as lead owner, and McClatchy and Nutting hired Frank Coonelly to become CEO.

On January 12, 2007, the Pirates announced that Robert Nutting would replace McClatchy as the Pirates principal owner.

Munir Bin Naseer

According to his McClatchy interviewer Munir Naseer chose a Dunkin' Donuts for their interview, wore American style clothes and baseball cap, and spoke English with a Chicago accent.

Valentine S. McClatchy

Former Editor of The Sacramento Bee, now The McClatchy Company, Valentine S. McClatchy was also the co-owner of the company with his brother Charles K. McClatchy.


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