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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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.
McClatchy said it would ultimately sell 12 of Knight Ridder's 32 daily newspapers, including the San Jose, Calif.
Working with this disadvantage, Ridder now has the advertising slump on his hands.
His cost cutting has earned him the nickname "Darth Ridder" among his detractors.
In 2006, Knight Ridder, goaded by anxious shareholders, made a prescient move and sold itself to The McClatchy Company.
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Ridder is also putting significant muscle behind its Internet job board, CareerBuilder.com , which is a joint venture with Tribune.
Taylor also didn't acknowledge the Inquirer's editorial quality under Knight Ridder, although he praised its populist tabloid sibling, the Daily News.
Tony Ridder has also instituted a program that ties executive compensation to circulation rates-- a unique motivational strategy in the industry.
Indeed, Knight Ridder's margins have significantly trailed those of its competitors until last year when it just made the industry average.
"Mario Melchiot and Daniel De Ridder - I know Daniel from the Under-21's and Melchiot I've met a few times, " he said.
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 newspaper reporter Jonathan Landay recently traveled with US troops in the same area where the soldiers were killed, and he joins us from Kabul.
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.
The Ridder family owns just 6% of the company, but it has more than just a financial interest in shielding its business from corporate raiders.
Those priorities changed abruptly when Tony Ridder was installed in the executive suite in 1995 after spending 32 years working his way up through the company.
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.
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.
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.
"The worst that anyone can accuse Tony Ridder of is failing to meet the standards of some self-appointed arbiters of what constitutes responsible journalism, " says Ken Marlin.
Some may deride his management, but the fact is that operating margins have jumped from 12.5% in 1995 when Tony Ridder took over, to 18.2% in 2001.
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).
De Ridder, who had earlier hit the post, then saw an effort tipped over the bar as Wigan looked set to secure a safe passage into round four.
De Ridder then played a part in Wigan's first goal, reacting quickest to stab McManaman's right-wing cross goalwards where Diame was on hand to provide the finishing touch.
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.
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.
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