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Detroit Free Press executive editor to step down (Everyday Ethics)

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:32:19 GMT

Detroit Free Press Caesar Andrews joined the Free Press in September 2005 as part of the new management team after Gannett bought the paper from Knight Ridder. "I am leaving to explore some things that have held my interest for a long time," says the 49-year-old newsman. "But I have tremendous affection for the Free Press and the community it covers." He departs in November.

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5 Ways Newspapers Botched the Web (CentOS, Linux and Operating Systems)

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:19:49 GMT

nicholas.m.carlson writes “Remember Knight-Ridder and AT&T’s Viewtron from 1983? With a $900 terminal and $12 a month, you could access news from the Miami Herald and the New York Times, online shopping, banking and food delivery, via a 300-baud modem. After sinking $16 million a year into the project, Knight-Ridder shut it down in 1986. [...]

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Philly newspapers had low 20% profit margins in early 2000s (Everyday Ethics)

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:48:59 GMT

J-School: Educating Independent Journalists Even while circulation and staff were dropping at the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News under Knight Ridder, and even as the challenge posed by the Internet loomed on the horizon, profits got bigger and bigger, reports the J-School blog. "This, to me, is the real tragedy of public chain ownership of local newspapers in the 1990's," writes Chris...

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McClatchy Freezes Wages [Print Is Dead] (Gawker)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:20:00 GMT

McClatchy, the struggling newspaper chain that made an ill-fated purchase of Knight Ridder in 2006, has just sent out a memo announcing that it is freezing employee wages across the entire company...

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Centro buys Real Cities from McClatchy; terms not disclosed (Everyday Ethics)

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:25:18 GMT

paidContent.org | Content Bridges The Real Cities Network was formed by Knight Ridder about ten years ago and acquired by McClatchy when it bought the rival chain in 2006. || Read Centro's release . || Ken Doctor: "We envisioned [Real Cities] as a whole newspaper industry solution -- a true, cost-efficient, single-platform based content and ad management/sales network that would allow dailies...

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Newspapers Stories We Tell Ourselves (Content Bridges)

Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:57:37 GMT

Out of many memorable quotes from my Knight Ridder days, one keeps bouncing back to me. It came of the company's mess in Detroit. Knight Ridder had long run the Detroit Free Press, one of the country's liveliest, most readable papers. But it fell afoul of Detroit's tough economy, and Knight Ridder ended up falling into a minority position, joining in a JOA (don't joint operating...

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How Walcott and the Knight Ridder reporters went about their work (MediaChannel)

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:49:00 GMT

John Walcott is the winner of the first I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence. He and his reporters did not fall for the deceit pushed by those high in the Bush administration.

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The Question’s the Thing. No Fawning, Please (Watchdog Blog)

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:55:51 GMT

At the Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau, where I worked for a time, there was a photograph on the wall of my first bureau chief, the late and legendary newsman from Chicago, Ed Lahey, with his memorable words of advice: “Do not fawn upon the mighty.” That comes to mind when I read transcripts of presidential news [...]

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How will we fulfill the promise? (Etaoin Shrdlu)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:09:00 GMT

This discussion on ProPublica is well-deserved praise for Tom Lasseter and associates who produced the Guantanamo: Beyond the Law investigation, and also asks a pertinent question at the end: McClatchy (and Knight Ridder) have a storied history of "getting the story right" -- from the administration's case for invading Iraq to the politicization at DoJ -- but this week's cutbacks dramatize the...

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The War Council (Masson's Blog)

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:07:24 GMT

I’ve mentioned it before, and I will certainly mention it again, the Knight Ridder team, since acquired by McClatchy Newspapers practiced some stand-up journalism with respect to Iraq, asked some tough questions, and did not fall for the ginned up case for war in Iraq as most other news institutions did. (See generally: The Reporting [...]

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Greg Mitchell: What I Said About Iraq and the Media on Bill Moyers' Show Last Night (The Huffington Post)

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 14:10:34 GMT

I was a guest last night on BIll Moyers Journal along with two stalwarts from McClatchy (formerly Knight Ridder), John Walcott and Jonathan Landay, famed...

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Word (If I Ran the Zoo)

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:15:00 GMT

When a history of journalism is written of the last eight years one name is going to stand out with the Sy Hershs and the Molly Ivins and Charlie Savages, Trudi Rubins, and MacClatchey/Knight Ridder and all those who tried to warn us and tried to tell us of what was going on. And that name is of a blogger-- Glenn Greenwald . Read him and marvel, read him and rage.

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Education Blogging (justbarkingmad.com)

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:23:12 GMT

While bored at SoonerCon I was surfing on my new laptop and found this blog on education. Joanne Jacobs is a former columnist for Knight-Ridder and writes quite eloquently about the challenges our education system faces. If you have children you should check it out. I’d link to one post but you really ought [...]

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Greg Mitchell: I'm on Bill Moyers' Show Tonite -- Here is Preview (The Huffington Post)

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:19:08 GMT

On Bill Moyers' Journal tonight I will be featured along with with two of the few journalistic "heroes" of prewar Iraq coverage from Knight Ridder/McClatchy...

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Hogwash. Hogwash! HOGWASH! (The Conscience of a Liberal)

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:32:44 GMT

The team at McClatchy, understandably miffed at the hoocoodaonode responses of their colleagues at other news orgs to Scott McClellan’s book, point out that people coodanode — after all, they did: We confess that here at McClatchy, which purchased Knight Ridder two years ago, we do have a dog in this fight. Our team - Joe [...]

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Highly recommended (Rising Hegemon)

Fri, 30 May 2008 09:47:00 GMT

The reaction to McClellan's book castigating both Bush & the media from the McClatchy (then Knight-Ridder) reporters who got Iraq right ! The news media have been, if anything, even more craven than the administration has been in defending its failure to investigate Bush's case for war in Iraq before the war. Here's ABC News' Charles Gibson: "I think the questions were asked. It was just a drumbeat...

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Palo Alto Daily News sold for $25m in 2005 (Newspaper Innovation)

Fri, 30 May 2008 09:06:30 GMT

The price Knight Ridder paid for the Palo Alto Daily News chain in 2005 was indeed $25m, as had been suggested in some publications. Dave Price, then with Jim Pavelich owner of the papers, revealed this to Editor & Publisher yesterday. Price was interviewed because of his (and Pavelich) return to Palo Alto with a new [...]

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If you are going to read one other blog today… (Firedoglake)

Fri, 30 May 2008 08:41:29 GMT

I suggest the one from the McClatchy (then Knight-Ridder) reporters who actually got the reporting RIGHT before the launching of the Iraq War?Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay.

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Marines Accused Of Trying To Convert Muslims (Sweetness & Light)

Fri, 30 May 2008 04:03:53 GMT

From those defenders of the faith at Knight Ridder: Iraqis: Marines Try to Convert Muslims May 29, 2008 FALLUJAH, Iraq - At the western entrance to the Iraqi city of Fallujah on May 27, Muamar Anad handed his residence badge to the U.S. Marines guarding the city. They checked to be sure that he was a city [...]

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Iraqis: Marines Try to Convert Muslims (Democratic Underground)

Thu, 29 May 2008 13:03:53 GMT

Source: [b]military.com / Knight Ridder[/b] Iraqis: Marines Try to Convert Muslims May 29, 2008 Knight Ridder FALLUJAH, Iraq - At the western entrance to the Iraqi city of Fallujah on May 27, Muamar Anad handed his residence badge to the U.S. Marines guarding the city. They checked to be sure ...

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