Sentence examples for the ridder from inspiring English sources

In the 15 years since he left the job of publisher of The San Jose Mercury News and became the first executive from the Ridder side with direct control of all the company's newspapers, Mr. Ridder has faced defectors and doubters about whether he is true to the journalistic creed.

For many of the Ridder Kids, the involvement in robotics has transformed their attitude about school.

Think Small The Ridder Miniatures Museum may be small in scope, but it thinks big in design.

"Babar's Museum of Art," an exhibition featuring Laurent de Brunhoff's illustrations at the Ridder MiniArtMuseum for Children.

The Ridder Kids, who won the citywide robotics prize for elementary and junior high schools last year, finished eighth of 82 teams in this year's final round.

Piled high on tables were arrangements ready to be installed in glass cases at the Ridder, which also houses pint-size rooms created by the museum's namesake.

"There was noticeable tension between Jack Knight and the Ridders," said Eugene L. Roberts, editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1972 to 1990, when its journalism was Knight Ridder's gold standard.

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.

So the Bancrofts join the line of other great American family newspaper dynasties — the Ridders, the McCormicks and the Chandlers — that have gotten out of the business in the last few years.

One by one, many of the old newspaper families – the Chandlers who controlled Times Mirror, the Ridders of Knight Ridder and, most recently, the Bancroft family of Dow Jones – have given up their companies, either through consolidation or outright sales.

But the Copleys ruled in San Diego, the way the McClatchys did in the Central Valley with The Sacramento Bee and The Fresno Bee, the Ridders in Silicon Valley with The San Jose Mercury News, and the Leshers in the East Bay with The Contra Costa Times.