Staats-Zeitung was the Teutonic seedling from which the Ridder half of the Knight-Ridder chain bloomed, while the publishers of Il Progresso, at one time a pro-Mussolini paper, begat the old New York Enquirer, which begat the National Enquirer).
McClatchy could sell or close some of the Knight Ridder papers and could take further cost-control measures in its own newsrooms to help finance the deal.
The essence of the Knight Ridder journalistic faith was part of the 1974 annual report -- the first of the combined company -- by Lee Hills, a Pulitzer Prize winner and then the chief executive.
"We want to add life to the collection," said Mr. Perrell, adding that the exhibition is part of a move to make the Ridder a children's museum, which will happen officially in January with a Babar exhibition.
05.22.02 The Ridder family is one of many dominating print journalism.
149799 P. Anthony Ridder Knight Ridder The Ridder family owns just 6% of the company, but it has more than just a financial interest in shielding its business from corporate raiders.
In March, Mr. Ridder, a scion of a nationally prominent newspaper family, quit as publisher of The Pioneer Press, which the Ridders had run for 80 years, to take the same job at The Star Tribune.
Jonathan Landay, one of the Knight-Ridder reporters whose pre-invasion work questioning the evidence for unconventional weapons evidence received little attention, said social media might have made a difference.
