COMPANY

Newspaper owner, founded 1974 from the merger of Knight Newspapers and Ridder Publications. Acquired by McClatchy Company in 2006 for $4.5B plus $2B in debt.

• The Akron Beacon Journal
• The Charlotte Observer
• The Detroit Free Press
• Fort Worth Star-Telegram
• The Kansas City Star
• The Miami Herald
• The Philadelphia Inquirer
• The San Jose Mercury News
• The Wichita Eagle

Official Website:
http://www.knightridder.com/

Industry:
Media

Corporate headquarters:
San Jose, CA

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Richard G. Capen	Publisher	c. 1935		US Ambassador to Spain, 1992-93
Alberto Ibargüen	Publisher	c. 1944		President of the Knight Foundation
Larry Jinks	Editor	c. 1928		San Jose Mercury News publisher, 1989-94
Tony Ridder	Business	c. 1940		CEO of Knight Ridder, 1995-2006

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Richard G. Capen	Publisher	c. 1935		US Ambassador to Spain, 1992-93
James I. Cash, Jr.	Educator	c. 1948		Harvard Business School, 1976-2003
Kathleen Foley Feldstein	Economist	c. 1941		Economics Studies, Inc.
Thomas P. Gerrity	Business	13-Jul-1941		Former Dean, Wharton School
Patricia E. Mitchell	Business	c. 1943		CEO of PBS, 2000-06
M. Kenneth Oshman	Business	9-Jul-1940		CEO of Echelon
Vasant M. Prabhu	Business	c. 1960		CFO of Starwood Hotels
Tony Ridder	Business	c. 1940		CEO of Knight Ridder, 1995-2006
Randall L. Tobias	Government	20-Mar-1942		AIDS Czar, USAID Administrator
John L. Weinberg	Business	25-Jan-1925	7-Aug-2006	Chairman of Goldman Sachs, 1976-90

EMPLOYMENT

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
John L. Dotson, Jr.	Publisher	?		Akron Beacon Journal publisher, 1992-2001

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