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Mr. Pruitt became chairman of the board in 2001. He has been chief executive officer of The McClatchy Company 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mr. Ruiz has been a director of McClatchy since July 1993. Since 1998, he has been chairman of Ruiz Foods, Inc., a privately held frozen food company, and was President and Chief Executive Officer of that company from 1990 to 1998. Mr. Ruiz currently serves on the board of directors for Gottschalks, Inc., Verdisys, the California Chamber of Commerce, the Hispanic College Fund and the Institute for Family Business. He is a member of the Business Advisory Council of California State University, Fresno.

Mr. Maloney has been a director of McClatchy since September 2004. Mr. Maloney is the owner of Olympic View Publishing, publisher of the Sequim Gazette, and Radio Pacific, owner of KONP radio, an ABC affiliate in western Washington state. From 1974 to 1989, prior to his ownership of Olympic View Publishing and Radio Pacific, Mr. Maloney held various circulation and advertising positions at the Anchorage Daily News, The Sacramento Bee and The Fresno Bee. He served as president of the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association from 1996 to 1997 and is currently president of the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation.

Ms. Ballantine has been a director of McClatchy since March 1998. Prior to joining the Board of Directors, Ms. Ballantine was a director of Cowles Media Company, a position she had held since 1993. Since 1999, Ms. Ballantine has been president of EBA Associates, a consulting firm. From 1993 to 1999 she was an attorney in the Washington D.C. law firm of Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin and Oshinsky LLP. From 1990 until 1993, she worked as a private consultant advising clients on international business investments. Ms. Ballantine is a trustee of Grinnell College in Iowa and chair of the Governing Board of the National Cathedral School in Washington D.C. Since December 2004, Ms. Ballantine has been a director of the mutual funds of the Principal Financial Group of Des Moines, Iowa. She also serves on the board of directors of the Durango Herald, Inc., of Durango, Colorado.

Mr. Ruiz has been a director of McClatchy since July 1993. Since 1998, he has been chairman of Ruiz Foods, Inc., a privately held frozen food company, and was President and Chief Executive Officer of that company from 1990 to 1998. Mr. Ruiz currently serves on the board of directors for Gottschalks, Inc., Verdisys, the California Chamber of Commerce, the Hispanic College Fund and the Institute for Family Business. He is a member of the Business Advisory Council of California State University, Fresno.

Mrs. Lane has been a director of McClatchy since March 1989. She is currently a special assistant to the board of trustees and to the president of Stanford University. She served on the board of directors of the James Irvine Foundation from 1990 to 2001 and the Brown Group, Inc. from 1985 to 1996. From 1984 to 1991, she was a trustee of the San Francisco Foundation. Mrs. Lane served as special assistant to the dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences of Stanford University from 1982 to 1992. She was a member of the board of trustees of Smith College from 1978 to 1985 and chairman of the board from 1982 to 1985.

Ms. Feldstein has been a director since 2006, joining the Board of Directors upon the close of McClatchy's acquisition of Knight Ridder on June 27, 2006. Ms Feldstein is a former director of Knight Ridder, who served on that company's board since 1998. Since 1997, she has been president of Economics Studies, Inc., a private consulting firm in Massachusetts. She earned a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977 and a bachelor's degree in Russian literature from Radcliffe College in 1962. She specializes in fiscal and monetary policy and the impact of government economic activity. She serves on the boards of BellSouth and BlackRock Closed End Funds and is chairman of the board of McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass.

Mr. McClatchy has been a director of McClatchy since September 1998. Since 1996, he has been the managing general partner and chief executive officer of the Pittsburgh Pirates Major League Baseball team. From 1994 to 1995 he was president of the Northern California Sports Development Group and president of the Modesto A's, a minor league baseball team. Mr. McClatchy held various positions with McClatchy from 1990 to 1994, including serving as sales director at The Newspaper Network, Inc, advertising director at the Amador Ledger-Dispatch and sales representative for The Sacramento Bee.

Mr. Jinks has been a director of McClatchy since July 1995. He spent 37 years with Knight Newspapers and Knight-Ridder Inc., a newspaper publishing company. During that time, he served as managing editor of The Miami Herald from 1966 to 1972, as executive editor of The Miami Herald from 1972 to 1976, as editor of the San Jose Mercury News from 1977 to 1981, as a corporate officer of Knight-Ridder from 1981 to 1989, and as publisher of the San Jose Mercury News from 1989 to 1994. He is a former member of the executive committee of the Newspaper Management Center at Northwestern University and former chairman of the Knight Foundation's Journalism Advisory Committee.

Leroy T. Barnes, Jr. joined the Board of Directors of Frontier Communications Corporation in May 2005. He also serves as a Director of Longs Drug Stores, Inc., The McClatchy Company, Herbalife and The California Endowment. In 2005, Mr. Barnes retired as Vice President and Treasurer of PG&E Corporation. From 2001 to 2005, he oversaw all financing, financial planning, risk management, cash management and pension fund operations. In 2004, he led the largest-ever U.S. utility financing, PG&E's landmark $7 billion debt financing in connection with its Plan of Reorganization. Prior to 2001, Mr. Barnes was Vice President and Treasurer of Gap, Inc., the international clothing retailer, where he was responsible for all of the company's financing, cash management, international finance, investor relations and risk management. While at Gap, Inc., he led the company's first major public debt issuance and managed its $1 billion common stock repurchase program. Before joining Gap, Inc., Mr. Barnes held a number of executive positions at Pacific Telesis Group/SBC Communications, including Assistant Treasurer, Division General Manager, and Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of PacTel Corporation. He was a principal in engineering the company's spin-off of AirTouch, Inc., as well as the sale of Pacific Telesis to SBC Communications. His experience also includes positions at UC Press, where he was Chief Financial Officer, and Deloitte & Touche, where he was a Management Consultant. Mr. Barnes earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Stanford Business School, where he was a Rockefeller Foundation Finance and Management Fellow.

Mrs. Evangelisti has been a director of McClatchy since July 1995. She worked in various capacities for The Sacramento Bee from 1978 to 1996, including the oversight of special projects for the newspaper.

Mr. Ritchey has been a director of McClatchy since July 1985. He retired from Lucky Stores, a diversified retail company, in 1986, where he was chief executive officer and chairman of its board of directors. Mr. Ritchey currently is director of SBC Communications, Inc., De La Salle Institute and the John Muir/Mt. Diablo Health System, and is managing partner of Alpine Partners, a family investment general partnership.

Theodore Mitchell is the CEO of San Francisco-based NewSchools Venture Fund, a venture philanthropy firm working to transform public education so that all children have the opportunity to succeed in the 21st century. A former deputy to the president at Stanford and vice chancellor at the University of California, Los Angeles, Dr. Mitchell is a national leader in the effort to provide high-quality education for all students and has long been active in California and Los Angeles educational reform initiatives.

Mr. McClatchy has been a director of McClatchy since September 2004. Mr. McClatchy is an entrepreneur, journalist and co-founder of Index Investing, LLC. He currently serves as editor of Index Investing's ETFzone.com, a website supplying content concerning exchange-traded index funds. In 1999, Mr. McClatchy co-founded indexfunds.com, a website for index investing content and in 2000 he co-founded iCatalog, Inc., serving as president and chairman of the board until 2002. From 1993 to 1996 Mr. McClatchy worked as a reporter for The Fresno Bee.

Mr. Coblentz has been a director of McClatchy since March 1979. He is a senior partner in the San Francisco law firm of Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass. He was a member of the Board of Directors of Pacific Telesis Group from 1976 to 1992 and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Central Valley Foundation. From 1964 through 1980, Mr. Coblentz was a member of the University of California Board of Regents and served as chairman for two years.