The McClatchy Company is a leading newspaper and Internet publisher dedicated to the values of quality journalism, free expression and community service. Building on a 147-year legacy of independence, the company's newspapers and websites are steadfast defenders of First Amendment values and advocates for the communities they serve.
Headquartered in Sacramento, Ca., the company has 12 daily and 18 community newspapers with a combined average circulation of 1.4 million daily and 1.9 million Sunday. Over the decades, McClatchy newpapers' many honors have included 12 Pulitzer Prizes, three of which were gold medals for public service.
McClatchy has an Internet subsidiary, Nando Media, that provides both content and business support for interactive media nationwide. Each of the company’s newspapers operates the leading Web site in its area, and most also offer regional portals as well.
McClatchy’s largest newspaper is the Star Tribune in Minneapolis-St. Paul, which it acquired in 1998.
The oldest paper, The Sacramento Bee, was founded in 1857 during the Gold Rush and is the company’s second largest.
The News & Observer in Raleigh, NC, was bought by McClatchy in 1995 and ranks third in circulation. Nando Media was created by The N&O and McClatchy acquired it when it bought the newspaper.
Two California papers, The Fresno Bee and The Modesto Bee, were part of McClatchy’s original holdings and are now the fourth- and sixth-largest newspapers in the group. The News Tribune in Tacoma, WA, purchased in 1986, ranks fifth in circulation.
In 1979, in its first moves outside its home state, McClatchy bought both the Anchorage Daily News in Alaska and the Tri-City Herald in Kennewick, WA.
McClatchy’s presence in the South began in 1990 when it acquired three dailies in South Carolina: The Herald in Rock Hill, The Island Packet in Hilton Head, and The Beaufort Gazette.
In January 2004, McClatchy bought the Merced Sun-Star and five affiliated non-dailies in California's Central Valley. Those newspapers are the Atwater Signal, the Chowchilla News, the Livingston Chronicle, the Los Ba'os Enterprise and the Sierra Star, which is in Oakhurst, CA.
McClatchy’s other operations include Newsprint Ventures, Inc., a consortium that operates the Ponderay newsprint mill near Spokane, WA.
The company has about 9,300 employees, and they remain committed to the same principle that spurred founding editor James McClatchy in 1857: quality journalism is the bedrock of a successful newspaper business.
McClatchy is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol MNI.
