McClatchy to Webcast Fourth Quarter 2004 Earnings Conference Call

McClatchy to Webcast Fourth Quarter 2004 Earnings Conference Call

SACRAMENTO, Calif., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The McClatchy Company (NYSE:MNI) announced today that its fourth quarter earnings conference call will be accessible live to the media and general public via Internet webcast and through listen-only, dial-in conference lines.

The conference call will be held on Thursday, January 27, 2005 at 11:30 a.m. Eastern, 8:30 a.m. Pacific time. McClatchy's earnings announcement will be released to newswire services before the market opens on January 27. The full text of the announcement and the financial tables also will be available on McClatchy's website, http://www.mcclatchy.com/ .

The live webcast will be accessible through http://www.mcclatchy.com/ and an archive of the webcast will be available for future reference.

In addition, McClatchy will provide access to the 11:30 a.m. conference call through listen-only, dial-in conference lines. To gain access to the call, dial 1-877-278-1205 at least ten minutes prior to the scheduled start of the call. The call conference ID is 3293521. Replays of the conference call will be available for 48 hours after the call. To access the replay, dial 1-800-642-1687 and use the same confirmation number as above, 3293521.

The McClatchy Company, headquartered in Sacramento, California, is a leading newspaper and Internet publisher. It publishes 12 daily and 18 non-daily newspapers located in western coastal states, North and South Carolina and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul. McClatchy has daily circulation of 1.4 million and Sunday circulation of 1.8 million. McClatchy's newspapers include, among others, the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, The Sacramento Bee, The Fresno Bee and The Modesto Bee in California, The News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), The News Tribune (Tacoma, WA) and the Anchorage Daily News.

McClatchy also operates leading local websites in each of its daily newspaper markets, offering readers information, comprehensive news, advertising, e-commerce and other services, and owns and operates Nando Media, a national interactive media operation that provides newspapers with content publishing tools and software development. McClatchy is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol MNI.


Source: The McClatchy Company

CONTACT: Elaine Lintecum, Treasurer of The McClatchy Company,
+1-916-321-1846, or elintecum@mcclatchy.com

Web site: http://www.mcclatchy.com/


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