McClatchy News

The Miami Herald began Tuesday asking readers of its Web site to voluntarily pay for the privilege, a new wrinkle in newspapers' ongoing battle to increase revenue from their online operations.

Debra Kuykendall, a 36-year McClatchy employee, was named as the Sun-Star's new publisher Monday.

Why? Well, most of the time when I turn sights on this paper, the editorial staffers get all weepy and come back with threats that they'll beat me with large sticks.

The Kansas City Star 's parent company McClatchy has announced it will lift a company-wide wage freeze starting this January, according to the Charlotte Business Journal .

The McClatchy Company , the newspaper publisher, recently said that it is seeing some signs of improvement in the advertising environment.

The McClatchy Co. on Tuesday offered its most forceful declaration yet that its slide in advertising is easing.

Gannett Co. Inc. executives sounded cautiously optimistic in presenting the company's outlook for 2010, an outlook that also indicates job cuts in the New Year.

A new poll released today demonstrates that over 60 percent of Americans recognize that the earth is getting warmer mostly because of human activity such as burning fossil fuels.

Tiger Woods TV Ads Disappear After Reports of Affairs Advertisements featuring Tiger Woods have disappeared from prime-time broadcast television and many cable channels following reports of his extramarital affairs, according to data from Nielsen Co.

An article posted on MSN's Money page today lists seven companies that financial writer Michael Brush predicts will bite the big one before the year 2020.

Print media is still dying, but there may be hope in keeping the presses running.

The New York Times Co. and McClatchy Co. saw their stocks rise Tuesday after the two newspaper publishers said they are seeing improvements in the advertising market.

C.K. McClatchy, left, 2009 inductee to California Newspaper Hall of Fame. Pictured at right after the presentation Dec.

Canada's central bank is holding its key interest rate at a record low 0.25 percent and is reiterating its expectation that it will keep the rate there until the middle of next year.

McClatchy Watch has posted a rather peeved response from McClatchy corporate on that cryptic $77m. loss to MNI's pension fund.

C.K. McClatchy, above, "had a fierce passion for quality newspapers," said McClatchy Co.

The McClatchy Co. expects its pension fund to suffer a $32 million loss as a result of a Wall Street scandal involving Westridge Capital Management , the newspaper publisher disclosed Wednesday in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The McClatchy Co. said Wednesday that its pension plan expects to lose about $32 million in a fraudulent investment scheme.

The McClatchy Co. said today its pension plan expects to lose about $32 million in a fraudulent investment scheme that has snared others, including Sacramento County.

NEW YORK Circulation numbers plummeted the farthest in modern history when the Audit Bureau of Circulations released its semi-annual results in late October.