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The eight newspaper titles include the Anchorage Daily News, Star Tribune (Minneapolis), Rock Hill (SC) Herald, The News Tribune (Tacoma WA), The Sacramento Bee, The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), The Fresno Bee, and The Modesto Bee. Four of the newspapers – those from California and Raleigh, NC - will be new to ProQuest and available to users of ProQuest’s Newsstand databases beginning in January 2005.
“Our customers look to ProQuest to provide the broadest possible coverage of newspapers in our databases. This agreement will give them more geographical coverage as well as access to two key state capital titles from California and North Carolina.,” said Rod Gauvin, ProQuest senior vice president, marketing and publishing.
“McClatchy papers are deeply rooted in these communities. We’ve been serving some of them for almost 150 years, and there is no better record of life in these communities than the one you find in our papers”said Howard Weaver, vice president news at McClatchy.
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About McClatchy
The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) is a leading newspaper and Internet publisher dedicated to quality journalism, free expression and community service. Building on a 147-year legacy of independence, the company's newspapers and websites are steadfast defenders of First Amendment values and advocates for the communities they serve. Headquartered in Sacramento, Ca., the company has 12 daily and 18 community newspapers with a combined average circulation of 1.4 million daily and 1.9 million Sunday. Over the decades, McClatchy newspapers have received many honors, including 12 Pulitzer Prizes, three of which were gold medals for public service. McClatchy’s largest newspaper is the Star Tribune in Minneapolis-St. Paul, which it acquired in 1998. The oldest paper, The Sacramento Bee, was founded in 1857 during the Gold Rush and is the company’s second largest. The company has about 9,300 employees, and they remain committed to the same principle that spurred founding editor James McClatchy in 1857: quality journalism is the bedrock of a successful newspaper business.
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