Media Outlet / Personality: Knight-Ridder

Purchased by McClatchy in 2006 making it the second largest newspaper publisher. Amongst its thirty-two daily newspapers is the Miami Herald Tribune. It also has ten foreign news bureaus.


Extra!: ‘Wall Street Does Not Like Newspapers’: CounterSpin Interview with Ben Bagdikian (May/June 2006)

Extra!: Update (May/June 2006) By Steve Rendall

CounterSpin: David Sirota on Hostile Takeover, Tim Redmond on MediaNews (5/12/06)

Extra!: Wrong on Iraq? Not Everyone: Four in the mainstream media who got it right (March/April 2006) By Steve Rendall

Extra!: Philly Papers Defend Non-Coverage of Mumia Victory (March/April 2006) By Dave Lindorff

CounterSpin: Jack Fairweather on "Heroes in Error," Ben Bagdikian on Knight-Ridder sale (3/17/06)

Economy Extra!: 20 Stories That Made a Difference: For better or worse (January/February 2006) By Steve Rendall and Peter Hart and Julie Hollar

Media Advisory: Probable Cause for Alarm: Press ignores Ex-NSA chief's ignorance of Constitution (1/27/06)

Economy CounterSpin: Jamie Court on Gas Prices and Jonathan Landay on FEMA & Michael Brown (9/16/05)

Extra!: America's Debt to Gary Webb: Punished for reporting the truth while those who covered it up thrived (March/April 2005) By Robert Parry

Extra!: Hometown Hostility: The Philadelphia Inquirer vs. Mumia Abu-Jamal (September/October 2000) By Edward S. Herman

Extra!: The Global Media Giants: We are the world (November/December 1997) By Robert McChesney

Extra!: Snow Job: The Establishment's Papers Do Damage Control for the CIA (January/February 1997) By Norman Solomon

Extra!: The Philadelphia Inquirer's New Spectrum: From Centrism to Anti-Semitism (November/December 1995) By Jim Naureckas