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overview
holdings
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landmarks
This chronology is indicative only. Context is provided
by the broader communications and media timeline.
beginnings
1857
launch of Sacramento Daily Bee
1868 Minneapolis Tribune, predecessor of Star
Tribune, launched in Minneapolis
1878 Minneapolis Journal launched
1872 Raleigh News launched
1876 Raleigh Observer launched
1880 News and Observer merge
1880 Tacoma Ledger launched
1881 Tacoma News launched
1882 Josephus Daniels (1862-1948) founds Free Press
in Kimnston
1883 Valentine and Charles McClatchy buy out partners
in Bee
1885 Daniels buys Raleigh State Chronicle, buys
Farmer & Mechanic
1892 sells State Chronicle
1894 buys Raleigh News & Observer for US$10,000
1907 Tacoma Tribune launched
1912 Tribune purchased by Cleveland publisher Elbert Baker
1913 Baker family buys Tacoma Ledger and News
1913 Daniels becomes Secretary of Navy in Wilson administration,
with FD Roosevelt as Asst Sec
1922 McClatchy family launches Fresno Bee
1922 KFBK Sacramento launched as partnership of Sacramento
Bee newspaper and J. C. Hobrecht Co
1923 Charles McClatchy takes over McClatchy company
1925 McClatchy buys out Hobrecht from KFBK Sacramento
1927 McClatchys buy News-Herald in Modesto
1932 launches KMJ Fresno
1933 News-Herald renamed Modesto Bee
1933 Roosevelt appoints Daniels as Ambassador to Mexico
1935 James Cowles, Sr. buys Minneapolis
Daily Star
1946 Norman Brown launches weekly tabloid Anchorage News
1947 Seattle Tri-City Herald launched
1979 McClatchy buys Anchorage Daily News
1979 buys Tri-City Herald
1982 merger of Minneapolis Tribune, Journal and
Star as the Star Tribune
1986 McClatchy buys Tacoma News Tribune
1988 McClatchy becomes a public company
1988 buys Senior Spectrum and subsidiaries
1990 McClatchy buys Rock Hill Herald, Hilton Head
Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette
(South Carolina) from Daniels family
1993 Newspaper Network established as a national advertising
service that enables customers place a single order for
ads in multiple newspapers
1994 NandO.net online service is created by Raleigh News
& Observer
1995 McClatchy buys News & Observer and several
smaller North Carolina papers, including Smithfield Herald,
Cary News, and non-dailies serving Zebulon, Wendell,
Knightdale and Chapel Hill
1998 Nando becomes Nando Media
1998 McClatchy buys Star Tribune and other assets
from Cowles family for US$1.4bn
2001 buys radio stations WKVS (103.3 FM), WJRI (1340 AM)
and WKGX (1080 AM)
2003 sells The Newspaper Network, Inc national sales and
marketing company to The Associated Press (AP)
and Vertis
2004 buys Merced Sun-Star, Atwater Signal,
Chowchilla News, Livingston Chronicle,
Los Baños Enterprise and Oakhurst Sierra
Star in California's Central Valley for US$40.5m
2006 agrees to acquire Knight Ridder
for about US$4.5bn in cash and stock
2006 announces that it would sell San Jose Mercury
News and The Contra Costa Times to MediaNews
and partnership that includes Gannett
and Stephens
2006 announces that The Pioneer Press in St Paul
and The Herald in Monterey County will be sold
to Hearst
2006 announces sale of Philadelphia Inquirer
and Daily News to local group Philadelphia Media
Holdings for US$562m
2006 announces sale of Akron Beacon Journal (to
Black Press), Aberdeen American
News in South Dakota, Fort Wayne News-Sentinel
in Indiana, Duluth News Tribune in Minnesota
and Grand Forks Herald in North Dakota for US$450m
2006 sells Minneapolis Star Tribune to private
equity firm Avista Capital Partners for US$530m
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