Mcclatchy

McClatchy Revenue Drops 23%

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 10.15.2009 | Media


SAN FRANCISCO — Newspaper publisher McClatchy Co. rode a wave of traumatic cost cutting and a one-time tax adjustment to a higher third-quarter ...

Team Obama Divided, Public Strongly Opposed, to More Troops in Afghanistan

Robert Naiman | Posted 10.20.2009 | World


Robert Naiman

Since we're all about promoting democracy, let's have some democracy here. Since the American people are opposed to sending more troops to Afghanistan, let's not do it.

Amnesty: Honduras Photos and Protestor Testimonies Show Extent of Police Violence

Robert Naiman | Posted 09.19.2009 | World


Robert Naiman

If the repression under the coup regime in Honduras were more widely known, it would be much more difficult for representatives of that regime to peddle their story in Washington that their government is "democratic" and "respects the rule of law."

McClatchy Doubles 2Q Profit

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 08.21.2009 | Media


SAN FRANCISCO — McClatchy Co.'s second-quarter profit more than doubled as a cost-costing spree that wiped out one-third of the newspaper publis...

Financial crisis coverage dominates Loeb Awards

AP | JENNIFER MALLOY ZONNAS | Posted 07.30.2009 | Media


LOS ANGELES — McClatchy & Co., one of the companies hardest hit by the crisis in the newspaper industry, was honored for its coverage of the eco...

Media Literacy 101: Cloak-and-Dagger News

Susan Moeller | Posted 07.19.2009 | World


Susan Moeller

It's not just Iran. Getting news out of countries in the throes of political turmoil has always been dicey. And getting the news out has often meant using the most recent technology to thwart the authorities.

McClatchy CEO "Hoping The Competition Goes Bankrupt Before He Does": Forbes

Forbes | Parmy Olson | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media


Chief Executive Gary Pruitt is slashing costs and playing chicken with bondholders, hoping the competition goes bankrupt before he does....

Nation's Top Newspaper Execs Meeting Today To Discuss Charging For Online Content: Report

The Atlantic | James Warren | Posted 06.28.2009 | Media


Here's a story the newspaper industry's upper echelon apparently kept from its anxious newsrooms: A discreet Thursday meeting in Chicago about their f...

McClatchy Starts $1.15B Private Debt Exchange Offer

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 06.21.2009 | Media


SAN FRANCISCO — McClatchy Co. is offering to buy back $1.15 billion in debt at a steep discount, a proposal that presumes the newspaper publishe...

New York Times, McClatchy Credit Ratings Cut

AP | Posted 05.26.2009 | Media


NEW YORK — Moody's Investors Service on Friday downgraded the credit ratings of The New York Times Co. and McClatchy Co. on concerns that busine...

McClatchy Reports Massive Losses

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 05.24.2009 | Media


SAN JOSE, Calif. — The McClatchy Co.'s losses widened in the first quarter amid an advertising meltdown that is increasing pressure on the publi...

Fresno Bee To Lay Off 63, Cut Salaries

AP | Posted 04.12.2009 | Media


FRESNO, Calif. — The Fresno Bee will lay off 63 workers and cut salaries in order to reduce expenses in a weak advertising market. In a memo to...

Miami Herald To Cut 175 Jobs

AP | JENNIFER KAY | Posted 04.11.2009 | Media


MIAMI — About 175 employees at The Miami Herald will lose their jobs, and most of the remaining full-time staff will see their salaries reduced ...

McClatchy To Eliminate 1,600 Jobs, 15 Percent Of Its Workforce

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 04.09.2009 | Media


SAN FRANCISCO — McClatchy Co. is shearing another 1,600 jobs in a cost-cutting spree that has clipped nearly one-third of the newspaper publishe...

Chuck Kennedy, McClatchy Photographer, Takes White House Job

McClatchy | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics


Chuck Kennedy, a veteran photographer who's covered presidential campaigns, the White House and Congress for two decades, is leaving the McClatchy-Tri...

Pakistan Under Pressure

The Real News | Posted 01.10.2009 | World


The Real News

Saeed Shah investigates the origin of Ajmal Amir Qasab; the only gunman caught in Mumbai attacks.

Jason Linkins

McClatchy Bluntly Shoots Down Fannie/Freddie Myths

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics


One gets so inured to the silly way of doing business in the media, where the obsessive need to "balance" the scales on any given topic has overwhelme...

Former Knight-Ridder Editor Wins First I.F. Stone Medal

Dan Froomkin | Posted 08.01.2008 | Media


Dan Froomkin

The Nieman Foundation and its Watchdog Project this year established an I.F. Stone Medal for journalistic independence. I'm delighted to announce th...

McClatchy To Cut 10 Percent Of Its Workforce

AP | SETH SUTEL | Posted 06.24.2008 | Media


NEW YORK — McClatchy Co., the No. 3 newspaper company in the country, said Monday it is slashing 1,400 jobs in the latest effort to cut costs am...

Taking Papers Private No Easier Than Running Them Publicly

Fortune | Devin Leonard | Posted 06.18.2008 | Business


NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Brian Tierney was pretty cocky when he and a group of investors bought the Philadelphia Inquirer and its sister, the tabloid Dai...

McClatchy Reporters: Forget Scott McClellan, Here's How We Ended Up In Iraq

Nukes and Spooks | Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay. | Posted 06.06.2008 | Media


Until now, we've resisted the temptation to post on former White House press secretary Scott McClellan's new book, which accuses the Bush White House ...