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Senior Officers

	Gary B. Pruitt - Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer Mr. Pruitt became Chairman of the Board in 2001. He has been Chief Executive Officer since 1996 and President since 1995, the year he also became a Director. He served as Chief Operating Officer from 1995 to 1996, and as Vice President, Operations and Technology from 1994 to 1995. Before that, Mr. Pruitt was Publisher of The Fresno Bee from 1991 to 1994, served as corporate Secretary and General Counsel from 1987 to 1991 and was Counsel from 1984 to 1987. He currently serves as a Director of The Associated Press, the Newspaper Association of America and The James Irvine Foundation.

	Lynn Dickerson - Vice President, Operations Ms. Dickerson was named Vice President, Operations of McClatchy on March 13, 2006. She oversees the operations of 11 newspapers - The News & Observer and The Charlotte Observer in North Carolina; the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Texas; The (Macon) Telegraph and Columbus Ledger-Enquirer in Georgia; The Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss.; and five South Carolina dailies: The Sun News in Myrtle Beach, The State in Columbia, The Island Packet in Hilton Head, The Beaufort Gazette, and The Herald in Rock Hill. Previously, Ms. Dickerson served as Publisher and President of McClatchy's Modesto Bee newspaper since May 2000. Before joining McClatchy in 2000, she spent four years as Publisher and President of the Times Record News in Wichita Falls, Texas, an E.W. Scripps newspaper. Ms. Dickerson is a Texas native and a past president of the Texas Daily Newspaper Association, just the second woman president in the organization's history.

	Heather L. Fagundes - Vice President, Human Resources Ms. Fagundes became Vice President, Human Resources of McClatchy on April 1, 2004. Ms. Fagundes served as Director of Human Resources for McClatchy corporate from December 1996 to March 2004. Ms. Fagundes joined McClatchy in 1992 as a Human Resources Generalist. She was the chairperson of the 2004 Sacramento Workplace Excellence Leaders Award Committee.

	Christian A. Hendricks - Vice President, Interactive Media Mr. Hendricks has been Vice President, Interactive Media since 1999. He joined the company in 1992 as Advertising Manager, Marketing for The Fresno Bee, and the following year became its Marketing Director. In 1994 he was named Manager of Technology for McClatchy, and held this position until 1996 when he was promoted to President and Publisher of Nando Media, McClatchy's internet publishing company. He remained there until taking his current position in 1999. In 2004, Mr. Hendricks assumed the additional role of President of Nando Media, which was renamed McClatchy Interactive in 2005. In 2006, he assumed the additional duties of overseeing operations of the Centre Daily Times newspaper in State College, Pa. Mr. Hendricks was named "New Media Pioneer" in 2003 by the Newspaper Association of America's New Media Federation. He has served on the federation's board and various NAA committees.

	Karole Morgan-Prager - Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary Ms. Morgan-Prager has been General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of The McClatchy Company since 1995 and was named Vice President in 1998. From 1992 to 1995, she was Associate General Counsel of The Times Mirror Co. She was an associate at the Morrison & Foerster law firm in Los Angeles from 1987 to 1992.

	Patrick J. Talamantes - Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer Mr. Talamantes has been Vice President, Finance, and Chief Financial Officer of McClatchy since April 2001. In addition, from April 2001 to December 2002, he served as McClatchy's Treasurer. Prior to joining McClatchy, he was with Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., a television broadcasting company, from 1996 to 2001, and served the last two years as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Talamantes was Treasurer of River City Broadcasting LP, a broadcasting company located in St. Louis, from 1995 to 1996, and spent nine years in various banking positions with Chemical Bank of New York.

	Howard Weaver - Vice President, News Mr. Weaver was named Vice President, News in April 2001. He has spent more than 25 years in a variety of posts with McClatchy, including editor of the Anchorage Daily News from 1983 to 1995; editor of the editorial pages at The Sacramento Bee from 1996 to 2001; and assistant to the president for new media strategies from 1995-96. He is a member of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and has six times served as a Pulitzer Prize juror. He serves on the Board of Visitors of the Knight Fellowships at Stanford; is past president of the Alaska Newspaper Association and the Upper Yukon River Press Club; past board chairman of the Alaska Press Club; and was founding co-chair of the Northern News Service, an international press cooperative of arctic nations.

	Robert J. Weil - Vice President, Operations Mr. Weil is Vice President, Operations, and oversees eight daily newspapers in the Midwest and Northwest -- The Kansas City Star in Missouri; The Wichita Eagle in Kansas; the Anchorage Daily News in Alaska; The Idaho Statesman in Boise; The Bellingham Herald, The Olympian, the Tri-City Herald, and The News Tribune, all in Washington. He was named to this position in 1997 after 17 years as a newspaper publisher. Mr. Weil joined McClatchy as publisher of The Fresno Bee in 1994. From 1992-1994, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer for Persis Media, a privately held company with newspapers in Washington and Tennessee. Mr. Weil held other senior management positions with Persis and Gannett Co. from 1973 to 1992. He currently serves on the board of the American Press Institute.

	Frank Whittaker - Vice President, Operations Mr. Whittaker is Vice President, Operations and oversees 10 daily newspapers in California, Florida and the Midwest - The Sacramento Bee, The Fresno Bee, The Modesto Bee, the Merced Sun-Star, and The (San Luis Obispo) Tribune, in California; The Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald and Bradenton Herald, in Florida; the Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky; and the Belleville News-Democrat in Illinois. He was named to this position in 1997. Mr. Whittaker joined McClatchy as General Manager of The Sacramento Bee in 1985 and from 1990 to 1997 served as both President and General Manager of that newspaper. The previous 13 years, Mr. Whittaker served The Toronto Star in a variety of management positions, including Director of Strategic Planning and Circulation Director. Mr. Whittaker is past President of the California Newspaper Publishers Association and currently is on the Board, and serves as Treasurer, of the Audit Bureau of Circulation. He also belongs to the Boards of the Sacramento Regional Foundation and the Graduate School of Business at the University of California, Davis.

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