McClatchy

Earnings: McClatchy Q3 Revenues Down 9.2 Percent; Income Drops Sharply - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Tue 16 Oct 2007 06:07 AM PST

The McClatchy Company reported Q3 income of $23.5 million, sharply lower than last year’s $52.6 million. Revenue slipped 9.2 percent to $540.3 million from $595.1 million, the result of a…

Yahoo Newspaper Consortium: Harmful Or Helpful? - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 11 Oct 2007 07:24 PM PST

Instead of offering a helping hand to newspapers suffering from declining readership and ad revenues, the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Newspaper Consortium could extract still more pain from its members, or…

Newspaper Roundup: Online Ad Revs At McClatchy Dip 3.1 Percent; Lee’s Online Ads Rise 48 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 19 Sep 2007 06:30 AM PST

Newspaper advertising numbers told a familiar story of continued struggle in August. While McClatchy (NYSE: MNI), Lee Enterprises (NYSE: LEE) and Journal Communications (NYSE: JRN) all experienced difficulty with classifieds…

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Local News Aggregator Real Cities Adds MediaNews Group’s 51 Sites To Network - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 04 Sep 2007 02:01 PM PST

The Real Cities Network, a collection of local online news sites, has added the Denver-based Media News Group’s 51 newspaper websites. This new alliance gives Real Cities, which is run…

With Renewed Terms, McClatchy Keeps Stake In Careerbuilder - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 04 Sep 2007 06:11 AM PST

After considering a sell-off in June, The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) has decided to retain its 14.4 percent ownership stake in online jobs site Careerbuilder. The Sacramento newspaper publisher, which…

News Industry Roundup: Newspapers’ Ad Revenue Going From Worse To Worst - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 29 Aug 2007 09:05 PM PST

A series of articles in E&P today offered a range of the newspaper industry’s health - and the prognosis went from terrible, with a brief respite, at one end to…

As Newspapers Ready Q2 Earnings Reports, Overview Finds Industry Slump Accelerating - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 18 Jul 2007 06:02 AM PST

A fuller picture of the newspaper slump will be revealed this week, as Gannett releases its Q2 report today, with Dow Jones and McClatchy reporting on Thursday. WSJ takes an…

Citadel Investment Group Says It Has 5.7 Percent Of McClatchy Stock - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 29 Jun 2007 09:03 AM PST

Earlier in the week, shares of McClatchy rose 7 percent in value for no apparent reason. Now Citadel Investment Group, a hedge fund run by Kenneth Griffin, has filed an…

NAA Mid-Year Review: CareerBuilder Hopes McClatchy Remains, But Pullout Would Have Little Impact - 2 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 20 Jun 2007 12:59 PM PST

Taking the podium Wednesday afternoon at the Newspaper Association of America’s Mid-Year Review, Matt Ferguson, CareerBuilder’s CEO, didn’t have much to say about McClatchy’s earlier musings regarding the possible sale…

Growth Slows For National, Traditional Media But Local Online Ad Spend Continues To Rise: Report - 1 Comment
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 01 Jun 2007 05:31 PM PST

While online advertising in general may be showing signs of slowing, the case appears to be the opposite when focusing specifically on local interactive ad spending, according to projections being…

Microsoft Buys Minority Stake In CareerBuilder; Four Percent Could Be Worth $60M-$70M - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Wed 09 May 2007 07:44 AM PST

It’s not as big as last week’s short-lived rumor about a merger with Yahoo, but Microsoft has in fact purchased a minority equity stake in jobs-site CareerBuilder.com. Microsoft becomes the…

Earnings: McClatchy 1Q Profits Fall; Posts Gains For Online Revenues - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 24 Apr 2007 07:53 AM PST

McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) reported that 1Q earnings from continuing operations dropped to $14.5 million, or 18 cents per share, compared to $21.8 million, or 46 cents per share, the previous…

Yahoo-Newspapers: Ad Services To Be Phased In Over The Year - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 16 Apr 2007 10:47 AM PST

Following up this morning’s agreement among the Yahoo newspaper consortium’s expanded services - graphic ads, content distribution, ad sales and paid search - and the addition of McClatchy into the…

Yahoo-Newspapers: It’s Official: McClatchy Joins; Deal Expands To Display Ads, Search, Content - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 16 Apr 2007 06:02 AM PST

Yahoo and the newspaper consortium announced a significant expansion of their deal—and new member McClatchy, as expected after reports last week from the WSJ and LAT. The consortium now includes…

McClatchy Walks Out Of Trib-Gannett Online Ad Deal; To Join Expanded Yahoo Consortium - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Thu 12 Apr 2007 05:35 PM PST

The continued dance of alliances in the newspaper industry: McClatchy has abandoned a nascent national online ad partnership with Tribune and Gannett to join a rival group of publishers that…

Gannett, Tribune and McClatchy To Jointly Sell Online Ads Across Properties: WSJ - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 10 Jan 2007 09:18 AM PST

The three big newspaper companies Gannett, Tribune and McClatchy have a history of working together in the online arena (well, Knight Ridder was the third one before MClatchy bought it),…

McClatchy Buys Citizen Journalism Sites FresnoFamous & ModestoFamous - 2 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 31 Dec 2006 06:25 PM PST

We missed this from earlier this month: McClatchy is not just disposing off properties, but has bought two very small ones: Its chain newspaper Freso Bee has bought citizen journalism…

Star Tribune Newspaper Sold by McClatchy To PE Firm For $530 Million - 3 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 26 Dec 2006 03:47 PM PST

The Star Tribune, the flagship newspaper of the McClatchy, is being sold to a private equity firm Avista Capital Partners for $530 million. This follows McClatchy’s purchase of Knight Ridder…

Earnings: McClatchy 3Q06 Online Ad Revenues Up 16 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 17 Oct 2006 12:12 PM PST

The McClatchy Company (MNI), like other newspaper publishers, continued to reap the benefits of its investment in online business during the third quarter. The owner of the Sacramento Bee and…

Latest Newspaper Circ Decline Spotlights Need For Online Offset - 0 Comments
Posted By Jamie Poitra - Tue 17 Oct 2006 11:12 AM PST

Whenever people think that things can get any worse for newspaper publishers, along comes more proof that it indeed can. The fall Fas-Fax report coming out Oct. 30 has more…

Industry Moves: It’s Official—Hilary Schneider, SVP, Yahoo’s New Marketplaces - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Wed 13 Sep 2006 12:11 PM PST

As readers of paidContent.org knew before the press release, former Knight Ridder digital exec Hilary Schneider is joining Yahoo. Some details: Schneider will be SVP of the new business unit…

McClatchy Interactive To Consolidate Locations; West Coast Ops Moving To Raleigh - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 08 Sep 2006 10:11 AM PST

Brain drain ... McClatchy Interactive hopes to save money by consolidating the San Jose operation that was part of the Knight Ridder acquisition with existing operations in Raleigh, N.C. KR…

How Knight Ridder Was Wiped Off The Media Map - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 28 Aug 2006 01:09 PM PST

The first question that comes to mind reading Katherine Seelye’s account of the newspaper version of “Who Killed Cock Robin” is how many other companies are being urged behind the…

Newspaper Groups Reach A Deal On CareerBuilder, Topix.net & ShopLocal - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 01 Aug 2006 01:09 PM PST

A deal between Gannett, McClatchy, and Tribune has been reached, on the fate of the jointly-owned online/classifieds businesses: Gannett and Tribune will increase each of their equity stakes in CareerBuilder…

Earnings: Internet Brings In $18.1 Million For McClatchy In 2Q06 - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Fri 14 Jul 2006 02:08 PM PST

As we noted yesterday, McClatchy skipped details on internet revenues in its oifficial release but a reading of the analysts’ call transcript at SeekingAlpha.com provides some color. Turns out McClatchy’s…