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	Kevin S. McClatchy Mr. McClatchy, a director of McClatchy since September 1998, was named Chairman of the Board in May 2012. A fifth-generation member of the founding McClatchy family, Mr. McClatchy was the managing general partner and chief executive officer of the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1996 to 2007 and also served on Major League Baseball’s Executive Council. From 1994 to 1995, he was president of the Northern California Sports Development Group and The Modesto A's, a minor league baseball team. Before his executive career in professional baseball, Mr. McClatchy spent almost a decade working in the newspaper business, including sales positions with The Newspaper Network, The Sacramento Bee and The Miami Herald. He is the first McClatchy family member to serve as Chairman of the Board since 1995.

	Elizabeth 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 life trustee of Grinnell College in Iowa and was 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 of McClatchy since September 2000. Mr. Barnes is the retired vice president and treasurer of PG&E Corporation, a position he held from 2001 to 2005. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Barnes was vice president and treasurer of Gap, Inc. Prior to that, Mr. Barnes held various executive positions with Pacific Telesis Group/SBC Communications. Earlier in his career, Mr. Barnes was a consultant at Touche Ross & Co., a predecessor of Deloitte & Touche. Mr. Barnes received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Stanford University and his MBA from Stanford Business School. Mr. Barnes is also a member of the boards of directors of Frontier Communications, Inc. (formerly Citizens Communications, Inc.) and Herbalife, Ltd.

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

	Kathleen Foley Feldstein Ms. Feldstein has been a director of McClatchy since 2006, joining the Board of Directors upon the close of McClatchy’s acquisition of Knight Ridder on June 27, 2006. Ms Feldstein served on the Knight Ridder board of directors from 1998 to the date of the acquisition. Since 1987, she has been president of Economics Studies, Inc., a private consulting firm in Massachusetts. She serves on the board of directors of BlackRock Closed End Funds and was chairman of the board of directors of McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, from 2000 to 2008. She is a director of Catholic Charities of Boston, a social not-for-profit company.

	Brown McClatchy Maloney Mr. Maloney has been a director of McClatchy since September 2004. Mr. Maloney is the owner of KONP radio, an ABC affiliate in western Washington state. From 1988 to 2011, Mr. Maloney was the owner of Olympic View Publishing, publisher of the Sequim Gazette and Forks Forum newspapers, also in western Washington state. From 1974 to 1987, Mr. Maloney held various circulation and advertising positions at the Anchorage Daily News, The Sacramento Bee and The Fresno Bee. He served as the president of the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association from 1996 to 1997 and is the former president of the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association Foundation.

	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. From 1987 through 1991, Mr. McClatchy served in a variety of editorial positions for computer magazines, including staff writer at PC Week and MacWEEK, and microcomputing editor at InformationWeek. 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 chief executive officer of New Schools Venture Fund, a national funder of education innovations, a position he has held since September 2005. He also served as president of the California State Board of Education. He was president of Occidental College in Los Angeles, a position he held from July 1999 to August 2005. Mr. Mitchell 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.

	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 a director of De La Salle Institute and John Muir Physician Network and is managing partner of Alpine Partners, a family investment general partnership. He is a retired director of AT&T, Inc. and John Muir Health where he served as board chair.

	Frederick R. Ruiz Mr. Ruiz has been a director of McClatchy since July 1993. He serves on the board of directors of Ruiz Foods, Inc., a privately-held frozen food company, and was president and chief executive officer of that company from 1990 to 2008. Mr. Ruiz currently serves on the board of directors of the University of California Board of Regents and the California Chamber of Commerce. He is a member of the Board of Trustees, University of California Merced and the President's Advisory Board, California State University, Fresno.

	Patrick J. Talamantes Mr. Talamantes became President and Chief Executive Officer of McClatchy in May 2012 and also joined the Board of Directors at the same time. From 2001 to 2012, Mr. Talamantes served as McClatchy’s Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer. In addition to being responsible for all of McClatchy’s financial operations, Mr. Talamantes was responsible for information technology and shared business services. From May 2011 to May 2012, he assumed additional oversight of McClatchy’s Florida operations, which include The Miami Herald, the Spanish-language El Nuevo Herald and the Bradenton Herald newspapers. Prior to joining McClatchy, Mr. Talamantes worked for Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., a television broadcasting company, from 1996 to 2001, and served the last two years as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Talamantes was Treasurer of River City Broadcasting LP, a broadcasting company located in St. Louis, from 1995 to 1996, and spent nine years in media and entertainment finance with predecessor banks of J.P. Morgan Chase.

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