The McClatchy Company is a publicly traded
American publishing company based in
Sacramento, California. It operates 30 daily newspapers in 15 states and has an average weekday circulation of 2.2 million and Sunday circulation of 2.8 million. In 2006, it purchased
Knight Ridder, which at the time was the second-largest newspaper company in the United States (
Gannett was and remains the largest). In addition to its daily newspapers, McClatchy also operates several
websites and community papers.