Earlier this year the nation's second-largest newspaper chain, Knight Ridder, relocated to San Jose, Calif. to be closer to the silicon action (see "Empty gesture, " Companies, May 14).

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Knight-Ridder newspaper reporter Jonathan Landay recently traveled with US troops in the same area where the soldiers were killed, and he joins us from Kabul.

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Similarly, activist investors in Knight Ridder, formerly America's second-biggest newspaper company, forced the firm to put itself up for sale late last year.

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