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The McClatchy Company  2007  Annual Report

A BLUEPRINT FOR SUCCESS

THE McCLATCHY COMPANY is the third largest newspaper company in 

the United States, with 30 daily newspapers, approximately 50 non-dailies,

and direct marketing and direct mail operations. McClatchy also operates

leading local websites in each of its markets which extend its audience reach.

The websites offer users information, comprehensive news, advertising,

e-commerce and other services. Together with its newspapers and direct

marketing products, these interactive operations make McClatchy the 

leading local media company in each of its premium high growth markets.

McClatchy-owned newspapers include The Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee,
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Kansas City Star, The Charlotte Observer,
and The (Raleigh) News & Observer.

McClatchy also has a portfolio of premium digital assets. The company owns

and operates McClatchy Interactive, an interactive operation that provides

websites with content, publishing tools and software development. McClatchy

owns 14.4% of CareerBuilder, the nation’s largest online job site and owns

25.6% of Classified Ventures, a newspaper industry partnership that offers

two of the nation’s premier classified websites: the auto website, cars.com,
and the rental site, apartments.com.

McClatchy is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol MNI.

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A BLUEPRINT FOR SUCCESS

We are focused on four major areas: driving 
new revenues, with a particular emphasis 
on online advertising; growing total audience;
providing high quality public service journalism;
and restructuring our costs.

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LETTER TO SHAREHOLDERS

Perhaps it is fitting that McClatchy’s celebration of its 150th anniversary in 2007

should be marked by competitive pressures and economic challenges. While this

surely was not the environment we would have chosen, it is broadly reflective of the

company’s history and strength – a reminder that success is the result not of easy 

sailing but of skillful navigation and stout heart.

GARY B. PRUITT, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

Beginning before the advent of electric lights in 1857, McClatchy has repeatedly

faced competitive and technological challenges like those that define today’s

environment. Consider 1863, the year in which the transcontinental telegraph

first began to deliver same-day news from the East Coast to our hometown,

Sacramento, altering the news landscape as radically as today’s online delivery.

Over subsequent decades,World Wars, economic downturns including the Great

Depression, and competition from radio and television likewise tested McClatchy.

Today a maturing internet is taking share from all media, including newspapers.

Through it all, we have employed a simple philosophy: Stay true to our 

mission of public service journalism while adapting operations to achieve

financial success. Charles Darwin is said to have observed that, “It is not 

the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones

most responsive to change,” and our adaptive strategy is perfectly congruent

with that. Our confidence in handling today’s challenges grows from that

foundation of resilience and competitive corporate focus.

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TODAY’S ENVIRONMENT AND OUR RESULTS

Basically, we are focused on four major areas: driving new

Advertising conditions eroded over the course of 2007.

General economic trends aren’t improving, and our big

markets in Florida and California have been especially hard

revenues, with a particular emphasis on online advertising;

growing total audience; providing high quality public service

journalism; and restructuring our costs.

hit by the real estate downturn and its ripple effect through

DRIVING NEW REVENUES

the other sectors of the economy.Today, job growth appears

to be slowing nationally, with consequent slowing in

employment advertising.

Despite the gloomy outlook often portrayed by observers,

our newspapers are robust, highly profitable mass media 

in all our markets. On the local level, we are focusing on

As a result last year advertising revenues declined 8.6%

increasing the number of small advertisers in our papers.

and total revenues were down 7.9% on a pro forma basis,

On the national level, our papers are working together

that is, including the addition of newspapers purchased 

regionally to attract large advertisers. We also publish a

in the Knight Ridder acquisition on June 27, 2006 and

growing portfolio of niche and lifestyle publications, which

excluding the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper which 
was sold on March 5, 2007, and reporting on a similar 

52-week basis.

Also because of declining revenues and the related impact

together with direct mail programs generate 8.3% of our 

ad revenues.This is print revenue – but not newspaper

revenue. In fact, these targeted efforts supplement the 

broad reach of our newspapers.

on our stock price, we recorded pre-tax non-cash impair-

Our growth increasingly comes from online and we are

ment charges of $2.8 billion in 2007.The company’s 2007

intensely focused there. Our websites offer best of breed

after-tax loss from continuing operations was $2.7 billion,

classified and retail advertising products, many of them

or $33.26 per share including the effect of non-cash after-

provided by leading internet companies who are strongly

tax impairment charges.

We have worked hard to reduce expenses to offset the

impact of the revenue declines, and as a result pro forma

cash operating expenses declined 9.1% while operating 

cash flow was down only 4.3% during the year. In fact we

generated $575 million in operating cash flow and used it

positioned in the online classified and retail advertising

arena, including: CareerBuilder for employment; cars.com
for autos; apartments.com in the rental category; and
ShopLocal for retail advertising. Importantly, McClatchy

owns between 14 and 26 percent of each of these valuable

and growing internet companies.

and the proceeds from asset sales to reduce debt by more 

Even while we’re focused on becoming more efficient

than $805 million in 2007. Debt at the end of 2007 was

elsewhere, we are investing significantly in our online

$2.47 billion compared to $3.28 billion at the beginning 

operations, including adding sales staff.

of the year.

While the current advertising environment has certainly

methods. Now we are rapidly becoming online specialists

hurt results, we can find some light at the end of the tunnel

who can do much better. We are realigning sales incentives

by recognizing that cyclical trends – like real estate – 

to focus on driving online sales, and online sales training 

do ultimately turn. But we’re not kidding ourselves, either.

efforts are strengthened for 2008.

To date, we’ve done well leveraging our traditional skills and

We understand that secular advertising shifts are also afoot.

So given these challenging circumstances, the obvious 

questions are: What are we doing to respond? What are 

we doing to ensure future success?

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McClatchy is working with industry peers and technology

we produce today than wanted it yesterday, and we know

companies to offer the best online products. We forged a

audience growth is the best predictor of future financial

partnership with Yahoo that makes perfect sense. We are

success for any media company. We reach 70% of the 

not a technology company like Yahoo, able to build and

adults in our local markets with our newspapers and digital

refine capabilities for highly targeted graphical ad serving

products, together a powerful engine for commerce and 

and search. But Yahoo is not a local media company and

public service. We will continue to focus on the combined

lacks McClatchy’s large news and local advertising sales

imperatives of growing total audience and finding increas-

capabilities.Together we will grow audience and revenue.

ingly robust revenues.

McClatchy continues to be near the top of the newspaper

PROVIDING HIGH QUALITY PUBLIC 

industry in online ad revenue as a percent of total at 8.6%

SERVICE JOURNALISM

in 2007. Last year’s online revenue performance was

stunted due to various transitional issues arising in the

Knight Ridder acquisition and the fact that slowing print

revenues offered fewer up-sell opportunities. But with our

intensified online focus and our strong internet businesses,

we expect to return to solid growth online in 2008.

As always, McClatchy remains committed to a relevant,

high quality news report. Last year we won two Pulitzer

prizes, for local reporting at The Miami Herald and feature
photography at The Sacramento Bee. No company won more.
Reporters at McClatchy’s Washington Bureau broke the

story of political implications in the firing of numerous 

GROWING OUR TOTAL AUDIENCE

U.S. Attorneys and continued to lead on the story, and 

To remain the leading local media company and a must buy

for advertisers, we are focused on continuing to grow total

audience, print and online, as we become a hybrid print and

online news and advertising company.

Print circulation ended 2007 down about 3.5% daily and

4.0% Sunday. About a third of that decline reflects strate-

gic reductions on our part – eliminating some unprofitable

circulation that advertisers have told us has little value.

We will continue that pruning through about mid-2008.

We then expect to return to a more typical run rate,

averaging perhaps a two percent annual decline.That 

might not sound so good to some, but we know it means 

that we’re holding on to our traditional audience better 

than other media competitors, all of whom face greater

audience fragmentation.

While our print audience may be slowly declining, our 

online audience is growing rapidly -- with unique visitors 

up 25% in 2007.

This is the brightest single story our industry has to tell:

that we are growing total audience of print and online taken

together on an unduplicated basis. More people want what

Iraqi women staffers from our Baghdad bureau received 

the prestigious “Courage in Journalism” award. A new

national destination website, featuring the work of bureau

correspondents in D.C. and abroad, debuted this year, and

some of the company’s foreign correspondents are headlined

on Yahoo News.

The interactive technology that brings competition also

provides opportunity. For instance, newsrooms once 

confined to a once-a-day print schedule now provide

breaking news around the clock, as their websites and

mobile alerts compete with television and radio broadcasters

for news headlines that can subsequently be expanded in 

the newspapers. We employ better storytelling tools than 

ever before, extending our reach across many platforms.

Far more than competitors, the company’s 24/7 news

organizations can provide both targeted information and 

in-depth coverage as needed through newspapers, websites,

mobile delivery and other developing technologies.

Our top priorities for newsrooms are frequent news updates

on all platforms, video reports, user generated content, and

greater cooperation and integration of print and online.

Let me give you an example of one website that’s getting it

right: In 2007, The Kansas City Star website produced more
than 50 news updates daily and more than 30 different

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videos weekly.The result? Traffic at kansascity.com grew
more than 33%. We are constantly getting better at this 

And we have chosen our markets carefully.These are 

premium markets where the household growth rate is 

in each of our premium markets across the country.

40% faster than the U.S. average. So while there may be

RESTRUCTURING OUR COSTS

Finally, we know that we must reduce cost structures – 

not through disruptive and expensive across-the-board 

cuts but through informed judgments and reallocations.

We continually ask,“what would a news company that

started today look like?” And then we move toward 

that cost structure.

Much of our reengineering has taken place deep within 

our operations, far from public view. We don’t issue press

releases about the operational restructuring that goes 

on in our company every day, but our progress has been 

substantial.

With technology, we’re taking advantage of economies of

scale like never before in our industry. Largely through 

attrition, centralization and outsourcing, workforce size and

compensation expenses are down. We reduced headcount 

by 7.0% in 2007 and total compensation expenses declined

7.5%. In total, cash expenses declined 9.1% in 2007 

compared to pro forma 2006 and we will continue our 

focus on restructuring our costs in 2008.

We are doing a better job at sharing news content and

resources within our company, which both saves money and

improves quality. While we are mastering and tuning our

operations online, we are also refocusing the printed paper

to serve today’s readers better. As we do both, we are rapidly

becoming a hybrid print and online news and advertising

company, well-positioned to capture our share of business 

in the evolving media world.

OUR OUTLOOK

economic cycles that affect our markets, over time their

growth translates into larger audiences and more advertisers.

This is my 12th year as McClatchy’s CEO. In the first 

10 years, we led the industry in terms of stock price 

performance. In the past two years we have lagged. Over 

the previous six years McClatchy consistently outperformed

the industry average in terms of advertising revenue growth.

In 2007, driven down by California and Florida, we have

underperformed the industry average.

After living through these ups and downs, I can tell you 

that it’s a lot more fun to lead than to lag. We expect to do

so again.This is not the time to be rattled or discouraged—

far from it. Instead, we are determined to restore this

company to a leadership position, create strong returns 

for all of our shareholders, and both sustain and extend 

our journalistic mission.

Before closing I’d like to acknowledge the efforts of 

our employees who have worked hard and demonstrated

great flexibility and perseverance in a very tough year 

filled with changes.Their efforts are the foundation of 

our success. We are grateful for the relationships we share 

with employees, customers and shareholders, and for your

continued support. We will spare no effort in making sure

we continue to earn it.

Gary B. Pruitt

Chairman, President and CEO

We see the future and have responded with a strategy that 

March 1, 2008

is sustainable: Combine the mass reach of our newspaper

readership with targeted direct mail and niche publications

and the power of each market’s leading local internet 

business. As a result, we operate the leading local media

company in each of our markets.

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Our websites offer best of breed classified advertising
products, including: careerbuilder.com for employment;
cars.com for autos; and apartments.com in the rental
category. Importantly, McClatchy owns between 14 and 
26 percent of each of these valuable and growing internet
companies.

GROWING REVENUES:

Our newspapers and online websites are robust, highly

profitable mass media. We focus locally on increasing 

the number of small advertisers, while working together

regionally to attract large national advertisers. Online 

as a percent of total ad revenue at McClatchy – 8.6% 

in 2007 – is near the top of our industry.

TOTAL REVENUES BY REGION

Northwest 12%

California 18%

Midwest 15%

Texas 10%

Florida 15%

Southeast 30%

We now operate in 29 premium
growth markets spanning from
Anchorage to Miami, and have the
greatest diversification of revenues
in the company’s history.

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We have chosen our markets carefully, and Charlotte 
is a great example of our premium growth markets.
McClatchy’s markets have household growth rates
40% faster than the U.S. average.Their growth
translates into larger audiences and more advertisers.

GROWING AUDIENCE:

We are quickly becoming a hybrid news and advertising

company, combining print and digital delivery. Our total

audience, that is print and online taken together on an

unduplicated basis, is growing, and reaches 70% of the

adults in our largest markets.

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The Miami Herald’s What the 5! enter-
tainment feature, produced Monday
through Friday, is a five-minute video
show featuring two youthful hosts
bantering about five stories of interest
that day, stories that are light and
often irreverent.

PUBLIC SERVICE JOURNALISM:

McClatchy delivers top quality journalism. Last year we won
Pulitzer prizes at The Miami Herald and The Sacramento Bee.
Newsrooms once confined to a once-a-day print schedule now

provide breaking news 24/7, as websites and mobile alerts 

deliver news and headlines later expanded in printed newspapers.

In 2007 The Miami Herald won the Pulitzer prize for local
reporting for a story on waste, favoritism and the lack of
oversight at the Miami-Dade Housing Agency that resulted in
dismissals, investigations and prosecutions. The Sacramento
Bee won the Pulitzer prize for feature photography for an 
intimate portrayal of a single mother and her young son as he
lost his battle with cancer in the series “A Mother’s Journey.”

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We are doing a better job at sharing news content and
resources, which both saves money and improves quality.
Our papers complete the switch to a narrower page in 2008
resulting in $8 million in annualized savings. And this is
another sweet spot: it is cheaper and preferred by readers.

RESTRUCTURING COSTS:

We are no longer tied to traditional cost structures.

Technology allows us to take advantage of economies of

scale like never before. Cash expenses declined 9.1%

in 2007 compared to 2006 as we focus on efficiency.

We continually ask, “what would a news company that
started today look like?” And then we move toward that
cost structure. We are doing so not through disruptive and
expensive across-the-board cuts but through informed
judgments and reallocations.

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AT-A-GLANCE

CALIFORNIA

The Sacramento Bee
www.sacbee.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

The Fresno Bee
www.fresnobee.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

The Modesto Bee
www.modbee.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

270,697
312,706
$211,035,000

150,482 
173,558
$107,673,000

79,918
83,870
$57,663,000

The Tribune (San Luis Obispo, CA)
www.sanluisobispo.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

36,579
38,233
$26,366,000

Merced Sun-Star
www.mercedsun-star.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

15,728
NA
$12,775,000

The State (Colombia,SC)
www.thestate.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

104,786
132,525
$83,933,000

The Telegraph (Macon, GA)
www.macon.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

56,333 
71,839 
$35,148,000

The Sun News (Myrtle Beach, SC)
www.myrtlebeachonline.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

49,946
60,481
$45,315,000

Ledger-Enquirer (Columbus, GA)
www.ledger-enquirer.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

42,567
51,375
$33,317,000

Sun Herald (Biloxi & Gulfport, MS)
www.sunherald.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

44,509
49,524
$35,659,000

The Herald (Rock Hill, SC)
www.heraldonline.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

30,210
31,983
$16,092,000

FLORIDA

The Miami Herald
and
El Nuevo Herald
www.miamiherald.com
www.elnuevoherald.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

Bradenton Herald
www.heraldtoday.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

MIDWEST

334,315
405,253
$297,417,000

43,420
49,236
$32,233,000

The Kansas City Star (Kansas City, MO)
www.kansascity.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

252,957
348,182
$220,320,000

The Wichita Eagle
www.kansas.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

85,005
132,452
$62,979,000

Belleville News-Democrat (Belleville, IL)
www.bellevillenewsdemocrat.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

52,293
64,393
$34,361,000

SOUTHEAST

The Charlotte Observer
www.charlotte.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

211,126
265,142
$169,292,000

The Island Packet (Hilton Head, SC)
www.islandpacket.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

18,974
20,394
$17,824,000

The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
www.newsobserver.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

171,094
211,712
$144,254,000

The Beaufort Gazette (Beaufort, SC)
www.beaufortgazette.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

11,794
11,285
$6,892,000

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NORTHWEST

PENNSYLVANIA
KENTUCKY

Lexington Herald-Leader
www.kentucky.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

109,036
137,109
$77,912,000

Centre Daily Times (State College, PA)
www.centredaily.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

24,274
31,409
$18,300,000

INTERACTIVE

Total Page Views
TOTAL REVENUES*

2,716,836,000
$170,551,000

McClatchy Corporate website
www.mcclatchy.com

McClatchy Interactive website
www.mcclatchyinteractive.com
McClatchy Interactive provides our
websites with content, publishing tools
and software development.

McClatchy Washington Bureau website
www.mcclatchydc.com
Home to more than 40 journalists in
Washington, D.C. and home base for 
the company’s foreign correspondents,
the Bureau has regional, national and
foreign reporting firepower.

The News Tribune (Tacoma, WA)
www.thenewstribune.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

112,370
128,568
$83,011,000

Anchorage Daily News
www.adn.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

63,641
72,587
$55,301,000

Idaho Statesmen (Boise, ID)
www.idahostatesman.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

63,033
82,984
$53,663,000

Tri-City Herald (Tri-Cities, WA)
www.tri-cityherald.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

40,318
42,819
$25,867,000

The Olympian (Olympia, WA)
www.theolympian.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

31,890 
39,218 
$27,491,000

The Bellingham Herald
www.bellinghamherald.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

22,866
28,898
$19,778,000

TEXAS

Star-Telegram (Forth Worth,TX)
www.dfw.com
Daily Circulation
Sunday Circulation
TOTAL REVENUES

207,564
292,771
$229,133,000

Circulation figures are reported on the company’s fiscal year basis and are not meant to reflect 
Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) reported figures.
Revenues include amounts generated by nearby non-daily publications reporting to the daily newspapers.
*Largely included in individual newspapers revenues reported elsewhere in this section.

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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS

in thousands except per share amounts 

2007* 

2006* 

% change

FOR THE YEAR
Net revenues
Operating expenses
Income (loss) from continuing operations
Income (loss) from continuing operations per share
Operating cash flow from continuing operations**

$2,260,363 
4,826,315 
(2,726,609)
(33.26)
574,653

$1,675,190 
1,328,282 
183,495 
2.84 
445,773 

34.9%
263.4%
-1585.9%
-1271.1%
28.9%

AT YEAR END
Total assets 
Long-term debt***
Stockholders’ equity 
Shares outstanding:
Class A shares
Class B shares

$4,137,919
2,471,827 
425,540

$8,054,710 
2,746,669 
3,103,624 

57,105 
25,051 

55,754 
26,116 

-48.6%
-10.0%
-86.3%

2.4%
-4.1%

* The Star Tribune newspaper has been reported as a discontinued operation in both 2006 and 2007.

** Operating cash flow from continuing operations represents operating income/loss ($2,565,952,000 loss in 2007 and
$346,908,000 income in 2006) plus depreciation and amortization ($148,559,000 in 2007 and $98,865,000 in
2006), plus impairment charges in 2007 ($2,992,046,000).The company believes operating cash flow is commonly 
used as a measure of performance for newspaper companies, however, it does not purport to represent cash provided by
operating activities as shown in the company’s statement of cash flows, nor is it meant as a substitute for measures of
performance prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

*** 2006 amount excludes $530 million of debt classified as current in the company’s balance sheet.

DIRECTORS AND OFFICERS

STOCKHOLDER  INFORMATION

DIRECTORS

GENERAL OFFICE

Elizabeth A. Ballantine
President, EBA Associates

Leroy T. Barnes, Jr.
Former Vice President and
Treasurer, PG&E Corporation

William K. Coblentz
Senior Partner, Coblentz, Patch,
Duffy & Bass

Molly Maloney Evangelisti
Former Special Projects
Coordinator,
The Sacramento Bee

Dr. Kathleen Foley Feldstein
President, Economics Studies, Inc.

Larry Jinks
Former Newspaper Executive,
Knight-Ridder, Inc.

Joan F. Lane
Special Assistant to the 
Board of Trustees,
Stanford University

Brown McClatchy Maloney
Owner and Publisher,
Olympic View Publishing
and Owner, Radio Pacific

Kevin S. McClatchy
Former Managing General Partner 
and Chief Executive Officer,
Pittsburgh Pirates

William B. McClatchy
Entrepreneur, Journalist and 
Co-founder of Index Investing, LLC

Theodore R. Mitchell
President and 
Chief Executive Officer,
New Schools Venture Fund

Gary B. Pruitt
Chairman, President and 
Chief Executive Officer,
The McClatchy Company

P. Anthony Ridder
Former Chairman and 
Chief Executive Officer
Knight-Ridder, Inc.

S. Donley Ritchey, Jr.
Former Chairman and 
Chief Executive Officer,
Lucky Stores, Inc.

Frederick R. Ruiz
Chairman & CEO,
Ruiz Food Products, Inc.

OFFICERS

Gary B. Pruitt
Chairman, President and 
Chief Executive Officer

Lynn Dickerson
Vice President, Operations

Heather Fagundes
Vice President, Human Resources

Christian A. Hendricks
Vice President, Interactive Media

Karole Morgan-Prager
Vice President, General Counsel
and Corporate Secretary

Patrick J. Talamantes
Vice President, Finance and 
Chief Financial Officer

Howard Weaver
Vice President, News

Robert J. Weil
Vice President, Operations

Frank R. J. Whittaker
Vice President, Operations

R. Elaine Lintecum
Treasurer

Hai V. Nguyen
Controller

The McClatchy Company
2100 Q Street
Sacramento, California 95816
(916) 321-1846

TRANSFER AGENT AND REGISTRAR
Wells Fargo Shareowner Services
PO Box 64874
St. Paul, Mn 55164-0874
www.shareowneronline.com
(800) 718-2377

Independent Auditor:
Deloitte & Touche LLP
400 Capitol Mall
Sacramento, Ca 95814

FORM 10-K
Upon request, the Company will
provide, without charge, a copy of
its report on Form 10-K filed with
the Securities and Exchange
Commission. Requests should be
made in writing to:

The McClatchy Company
Attention: Treasurer
P. O. Box 15779
Sacramento, California 95852

ANNUAL MEETING
The annual meeting of stockholders 
will be held at the Vizcaya Pavilion,
2019 21st Street, Sacramento,
California, on Tuesday, May 13,
2008 at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time.

CERTIFICATIONS OF OFFICERS
The company submitted its Annual
CEO Certification for 2007 to the
New York Stock Exchange on June
15, 2007. The company has filed
with the Securities and Exchange
Commission as Exhibits 31.3 and
31.2 to its Annual Report on 
From 10-K for the fiscal year 
ended December 30, 2007, the
Certifications of its Chief Executive
Officer and Chief Financial Officer
required in connection with that
report by rules 13a-14(a) and 
15-d-14(a) under the Securities
Exchange Act.

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