Knight Ridder, Inc. | Introduction
Introduction
50 W. San Fernando Street, Suite 1500
San Jose, California 95113
U.S.A.
Telephone: (408) 938-7700
Fax: (408) 938-7766
Web site: http://www.kri.com
Public Company
Incorporated: 1974 as Knight-Ridder Newspapers, Inc.
Employees: 18,000
Sales: $2.9 billion (2003)
Stock Exchanges: New York
Ticker Symbol: KRI
NAIC: 511110 Newspaper Publishers; 516110 Internet Publishing and Broadcasting; 519110 Newspaper Syndicates
Knight Ridder, Inc. is the second largest newspaper publisher in the United States, with 31 daily and 26 nondaily newspapers in 28 U.S. markets, including the well known and prize-winning Detroit Free Press, Miami Herald, Philadelphia Inquirer, and San Jose Mercury News. Knight Ridder's newspapers have won 84 Pulitzer Prizes, and its online news service with the Tribune Company has become equally respected and used by millions around the world. Second only to the Gannett Company, Inc., the U.S.'s largest newspaper publisher with more than 100 dailies (including the most widely read domestic paper, USA Today) and 500 nondaily papers, Knight Ridder has not given up hope of one day equaling its $7 billion rival.