Let me join the journalists who are rooting for McClatchy to buy Knight Ridder (if it must be bought). McClatchy’s a good, family-controlled newspaper company that runs a bunch of not-huge but journalistically solid papers (Raleigh, Minneapolis, and Sacramento being the biggest). (It actually reminds me a bit of the two good, family-controlled newspaper companies I’ve worked for, in Toledo and Dallas.)

Knight Ridder used to have a similar reputation in the industry, but that’s soured a bit in recent years (although they still publish some fine papers that employ some fine friends of mine.) In any event, McClatchy would be leagues better than the other apparent candidate for the company, a joint effort of Gannett and MediaNews, neither of which is…well, you never know when I might want a job with them, so I’ll be quiet.

09 March 2006

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