The Sacramento Bee

Newspaper PublishingUnited States501-1000 Employees

History
Published: Monday, Dec. 04, 2006 
Founded in 1857, The Sacramento Bee is the flagship of the 30 daily and almost 50 non-daily newspapers owned by The McClatchy Company. The third-largest newspaper corporation in the country in terms of circulation, McClatchy prints more than 3.2 million papers each day, read by millions more all over the world via a covey of Web sites on the Internet.

On February 3, 2007, The McClatchy Company and The Sacramento Bee celebrated their 150th Anniversary. Over the years, McClatchy-owned papers have won hundreds of journalism awards, including 73 Pulitzer Prizes. Of that number, 15 have been coveted Gold Medals for Public Service.


The Sacramento Bee Company overview

The Bee's circulation area covers approximately 12,000 square miles: south to Stockton, north to the Oregon border, east to Reno and west to the San Francisco Bay Area. Over the years, circulation of both the daily and Sunday papers has grown steadily, and the paper remains at the forefront of newspaper technology and publishing. The bundle of ink and newsprint that arrives on time every morning reflects the efforts of more than 1,000 employees and 1,100 independent newspaper carriers.

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