The Sacramento Bee is a daily newspaper in Sacramento, California, USA covering local news, sports, business, politics and community events.
The newspaper is published seven days a week.
The Sacramento Bee is the flagship of the 30 daily and almost 50 non-daily newspapers owned by McClatchy Company. The paper is distributed throughout the Sacramento Valley and across northern California. It was originally called The Daily Bee - the name was intended to suggest that the paper is as busy as a bee.
The newspaper was founded in 1857 by James McClatchy. After he died in 1883, his sons Charles Kenny (C.K.) and Valentine Stuart (V.S.) McClatchy took control of The Bee. C.K. was the editor and he became one of the nation's most respected journalists, making the paper an aggressive voice for progressive thinking during his 60-year career. The descendants of C.K. McClatchy, through the children and grandchildren of his daughter Charlotte Maloney and son Carlos McClatchy, owned a controlling interest in the McClatchy Company until August 4, 2020 when the business was sold to New Jersey hedge fund Chatham Asset Management LLC in a bankruptcy proceeding.
Circulation estimate: 92,733
The Sacramento Bee is one of the highest circulation newspapers in the USA.
This newspaper is owned by McClatchy Company.
For Sacramento Bee contact information, see the California news media contacts at EasyMediaList.com.
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-- In December 2020, Scott LeBar was named interim editor. Scott LeBar replaced Lauren Gustus who was the regional editor of the Sacramento Bee.
Posted by Mondo Times Editors, Boulder Colorado, December 11, 2020
-- On February 13, 2020, the newspaper company said it could no longer pay its debts. With the bankruptcy filing, ownership of the company will go to its creditors, ending 163 years of family control by the McClatchy family. If the plan is accepted, hedge fund Chatham Asset Management LLC will lead the new owners.
McClatchy owns 30 daily newspapers including the Sacramento Bee, Kansas...
-- On June 8, 2018, Sacramento Bee editor Lauren Gustus wrote about her plan to save the newspaper. And that plan is all digital:
"We could fully fund our newsrooms – from salaries and benefits to notepads and pens – if we had 60,000 people supporting us through digital subscriptions. Roughly 15,000 do so today, so we'd need to earn the support of about 45,000...
-- On April 24, 2018, Sacramento Bee reporter Mark Anderson wrote that the paper is laying off 15 journalists and cutting eight jobs in the production department. The Bee is owned by The McClatchy Company, which Anderson said "has lost 85 percent of its value since early 2014 as the company has struggled under its debt load and as advertising revenue has declined."
The story noted...
-- The artist who drew the "Wings on the Hudson" cartoon, which showed a pair of giant hands guiding a US Airways jet to an emergency landing on the Hudson River, died on March 30, 2012 after an extended bout with stomach cancer.
The Sacramento Bee provided more details in Rex Babin, Sacramento Bee editorial cartoonist, always drew from the heart, published March 31, 2012:
"That cartoon resonated with people on the...Also in California...
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