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	Elizabeth A. Ballantine Ms. Ballantine has been a director of McClatchy since March 1998. Prior to joining the Board of Directors, Ms. Ballantine was a director of Cowles Media Company, a position she had held since 1993. Since 1999, Ms. Ballantine has been president of EBA Associates, a consulting firm. From 1993 to 1999 she was an attorney in the Washington D.C. law firm of Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin and Oshinsky LLP. From 1990 until 1993, she worked as a private consultant advising clients on international business investments. Ms. Ballantine is a trustee of Grinnell College in Iowa and chair of the Governing Board of the National Cathedral School in Washington D.C. Since December 2004, Ms. Ballantine has been a director of the mutual funds of the Principal Financial Group of Des Moines, Iowa. She also serves on the board of directors of the Durango Herald, Inc., of Durango, Colorado.

	Leroy Barnes, Jr. Mr. Barnes has been a director since September 2000. Mr. Barnes is the retired vice president and treasurer of PG&E Corporation, a provider of electricity and natural gas, a position he held from July 2001 to July 2005. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Barnes was vice president and treasurer of Gap, Inc., an apparel company. From 1985 to 1997, Mr. Barnes was an executive at Pacific Telesis Group, the diversified telecommunications parent company of Pacific Bell, where he held positions as assistant treasurer, division general manager, and vice president and chief financial officer of PacTel Corporation, Pacific Telesis' unregulated subsidiary. Mr. Barnes serves on the board of directors of Longs Drug Stores Corporation, Herbalife, Ltd., and Citizens Communications, Inc.

	Molly Maloney Evangelisti Mrs. Evangelisti has been a director of McClatchy since July 1995. She worked in various capacities for The Sacramento Bee from 1978 to 1996, including the oversight of special projects for the newspaper.

	Kathleen Foley Feldstein Ms. Feldstein has been a director since 2006, joining the Board of Directors upon the close of McClatchy’s acquisition of Knight Ridder on June 27, 2006. Ms Feldstein is a former director of Knight Ridder, who served on that company’s board since 1998. Since 1997, she has been president of Economics Studies, Inc., a private consulting firm in Massachusetts. She earned a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977 and a bachelor’s degree in Russian literature from Radcliffe College in 1962. She specializes in fiscal and monetary policy and the impact of government economic activity. She serves on the boards of BellSouth and BlackRock Closed End Funds and is chairman of the board of McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass.

	Larry Jinks Mr. Jinks has been a director of McClatchy since July 1995. He spent 37 years with Knight Newspapers and Knight-Ridder Inc., a newspaper publishing company. During that time, he served as managing editor of The Miami Herald from 1966 to 1972, as executive editor of The Miami Herald from 1972 to 1976, as editor of the San Jose Mercury News from 1977 to 1981, as a corporate officer of Knight-Ridder from 1981 to 1989, and as publisher of the San Jose Mercury News from 1989 to 1994. He is a former member of the executive committee of the Newspaper Management Center at Northwestern University and former chairman of the Knight Foundation's Journalism Advisory Committee.

	Joan F. Lane Mrs. Lane has been a director of McClatchy since March 1989. She is currently a special assistant to the board of trustees and to the president of Stanford University. She served on the board of directors of the James Irvine Foundation from 1990 to 2001 and the Brown Group, Inc. from 1985 to 1996. From 1984 to 1991, she was a trustee of the San Francisco Foundation. Mrs. Lane served as special assistant to the dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences of Stanford University from 1982 to 1992. She was a member of the board of trustees of Smith College from 1978 to 1985 and chairman of the board from 1982 to 1985.

	Brown McClatchy Maloney Mr. Maloney has been a director of McClatchy since September 2004. Mr. Maloney is the owner of Olympic View Publishing, publisher of the Sequim Gazette, and Radio Pacific, owner of KONP radio, an ABC affiliate in western Washington state. From 1974 to 1989, prior to his ownership of Olympic View Publishing and Radio Pacific, Mr. Maloney held various circulation and advertising positions at the Anchorage Daily News, The Sacramento Bee and The Fresno Bee. He served as president of the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association from 1996 to 1997 and is currently president of the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation.

	Kevin S. McClatchy Mr. McClatchy has been a director of McClatchy since September 1998. Since 1996, he has been the managing general partner and chief executive officer of the Pittsburgh Pirates Major League Baseball team. From 1994 to 1995 he was president of the Northern California Sports Development Group and president of the Modesto A's, a minor league baseball team. Mr. McClatchy held various positions with McClatchy from 1990 to 1994, including serving as sales director at The Newspaper Network, Inc, advertising director at the Amador Ledger-Dispatch and sales representative for The Sacramento Bee.

	William B. McClatchy Mr. McClatchy has been a director of McClatchy since September 2004. Mr. McClatchy is an entrepreneur, journalist and co-founder of Index Investing, LLC. He currently serves as editor of Index Investing's ETFzone.com, a website supplying content concerning exchange-traded index funds. In 1999, Mr. McClatchy co-founded indexfunds.com, a website for index investing content and in 2000 he co-founded iCatalog, Inc., serving as president and chairman of the board until 2002. From 1993 to 1996 Mr. McClatchy worked as a reporter for The Fresno Bee.

	Theodore R. Mitchell Mr. Mitchell has been a director since September 2001. He is President and CEO of New Schools Venture Fund, a national funder of education innovations, a position he has held since September 2005. Mr. Mitchell is president emeritus of Occidental College in Los Angeles, and served as president of the college from July 1999 to September 2005. He was vice president of education and strategic initiatives at the J. Paul Getty Trust from 1998 to 1999. Mr. Mitchell held various positions with the University of California, Los Angeles from 1992 to 1998, including serving as vice chancellor, academic planning and budget, and vice chancellor for external affairs. He served as deputy to the president and to the provost of Stanford University from 1991 to 1992. Prior to that time, he was a professor at Dartmouth College, where he also served as chair of the Department of Education.

	Gary B. Pruitt Mr. Pruitt became chairman of the board in 2001. He has been chief executive officer of The McClatchy Company since 1996 and president since 1995, the year he also became a director. He served as chief operating officer from 1995 to 1996, and as vice president, operations and technology from 1994 to 1995. Before that, Mr. Pruitt was publisher of The Fresno Bee from 1991 to 1994, served as corporate secretary and general counsel from 1987 to 1991 and was counsel from 1984 to 1987. He currently serves as a director of The Associated Press, the Newspaper Association of America and The James Irvine Foundation.

	S. Donley Ritchey Mr. Ritchey has been a director of McClatchy since July 1985. He retired from Lucky Stores, a diversified retail company, in 1986, where he was chief executive officer and chairman of its board of directors. Mr. Ritchey currently is director of SBC Communications, Inc., De La Salle Institute and the John Muir/Mt. Diablo Health System, and is managing partner of Alpine Partners, a family investment general partnership.

	Frederick R. Ruiz Mr. Ruiz has been a director of McClatchy since July 1993. Since 1998, he has been chairman of Ruiz Foods, Inc., a privately held frozen food company, and was President and Chief Executive Officer of that company from 1990 to 1998. Mr. Ruiz currently serves on the board of directors for Gottschalks, Inc., Verdisys, the California Chamber of Commerce, the Hispanic College Fund and the Institute for Family Business. He is a member of the Business Advisory Council of California State University, Fresno.

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