McClatchy ( MNI - news - people ), which had acquired Knight Ridder.
The Knight Foundation has a shared origin story with the now retired public media company Knight Ridder.
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McClatchy said it would ultimately sell 12 of Knight Ridder's 32 daily newspapers, including the San Jose, Calif.
In 2006, Knight Ridder, goaded by anxious shareholders, made a prescient move and sold itself to The McClatchy Company.
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Taylor also didn't acknowledge the Inquirer's editorial quality under Knight Ridder, although he praised its populist tabloid sibling, the Daily News.
Indeed, Knight Ridder's margins have significantly trailed those of its competitors until last year when it just made the industry average.
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.
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.
Perhaps most critical is Knight Ridder's renewed focus upon community service, which is at the heart of any newspaper's success when trying to boost circulation.
So that even though Tribune is a very profitable company, they, like the Knight Ridder Company a year ago, were forced to put themselves on the block.
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.
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).
Both Gates and Davis deny any imminent plans for an initial offering, but in September Corbis raided newspaper publisher Knight Ridder to get Susan McDonald as chief financial officer.
Joe Galloway, the senior military correspondent for Knight Ridder newspapers, says that the conflict in Iraq is unlike any other he's seen and he's covered wars for 41 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.
He gave only grudging praise to the executives running Knight Ridder at the time, whose successes made a mockery of the Bulletin's famous marketing slogan that in Philadelphia "nearly everybody reads" the paper.
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.
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.
While McClatchy stock had dropped about 10% since the beginning of the year as investors fretted over the possibility that the company would overpay for Knight Ridder, the stock bounced up 2.5% on Friday after the expected terms became clearer.
Fine thinks there's a chance that privately held MediaNews Group of Denver, one of the losing suitors for Knight Ridder, or even some of the unions operating at the papers could step up and buy some or all of those properties.
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.
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