Before that, she reported for Reuters and Knight-Ridder Financial News in the futures trading pits of Chicago.
Ad revenue is down, media margins are shrinking and Knight-Ridder 's fall has many saying paper is dead.
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.
When Singleton and Scudder have tried metro dailies, they dont buy prime properties -- monopolies, that is -- that only giants like Gannett and Knight-Ridder can afford.
Mr. JONATHAN LANDAY (Knight-Ridder): These attacks are continuations of the guerrilla-style war being waged by the Taliban, the radical Islamic movement that was swept from power here by the US-led intervention in 2001.
He's the senior national security correspondent for Knight-Ridder.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, a former Knight-Ridder paper that was acquired last year by McClatchy and then sold to a local investor group, eked out an average daily circulation gain of 0.6% to 352, 592, a notable improvement from the 7.6% year-on-year decline it recorded during the previous six-month period.
Knight Ridder is the product of the 1974 merger between Knight Newspapers and Ridder Publications --family companies that date back to 1903 and 1892, respectively.
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).
Knight Ridder has always had a reputation for journalistic excellence as well as for making that value a priority over the bottom line--which is perhaps why Knight Ridder's financial performance has lagged that of its industry peers for years.
Companies such as Eloan, Amazon Services and Knight Ridder pay Efficient a 5%-to-15% commission for access to its terabyte of data on which keywords and ad strategies have genuinely clinched sales.
Knight Ridder (nyse: KRI - news - people ) is more vulnerable to a hostile takeover than most media ventures in this age of industry consolidation because of its unique capital structure.
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.
McClatchy ( MNI - news - people ), which had acquired Knight Ridder.
The Knight Ridder newspaper company, which used to be one of the nation's largest chains, was - has been forced to sell off to McClatchy last year.
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