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The Sacramento Bee
Front page ofThe Sacramento Bee,
April 29, 2024
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)The McClatchy Company
EditorColleen McCain Nelson[1]
Founded1857 (asThe Daily Bee)[2]
Headquarters1601 Alhambra Boulevard, Suite 100
Sacramento, California95816
USA
Circulation90,244 Daily
142,589 Sunday (as of 2020)[3]
ISSN0890-5738
OCLCnumber37706143
Websitesacbee

The Sacramento Beeis a daily newspaper published inSacramento, California,in the United States. Since its foundation in 1857,The Beehas become the largest newspaper in Sacramento, the fifth largest newspaper in California, and the 27th largest paper in the U.S.[4]It is distributed in the upperSacramento Valley,with a total circulation area that spans about 12,000 square miles (31,000 km2): south toStockton, California,north to theOregonborder, east toReno, Nevada,and west to theSan Francisco Bay Area.[5][6]

The Beeis the flagship of the nationwideMcClatchy Company.[5]Its "Scoopy Bee" mascot,[7][8][9]created byWalt Disneyin 1943, has been used by all threeBeenewspapers (in Sacramento,[10]Modesto,andFresno).[5]

History

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Under the nameThe Daily Bee,the first issue of the newspaper was published on February 3, 1857, proudly boasting that "the object of this newspaper is not only independence, but permanence".[5]At this time,The Beewas in competition with theSacramento Union,a newspaper founded in 1851.[2]AlthoughThe Beesoon surpassed theUnionin popularity, theUnionsurvived until its closure in 1994, leavingThe Sacramento Beeto be the longest-running newspaper in the city's history.

The first editor ofThe Sacramento BeewasJohn Rollin Ridge,[11]butJames McClatchytook over the position by the end of the first week.

Also within a week of its creation,The Beeuncovered a state scandal which led to the impeachment ofKnow-NothingCalifornia State TreasurerHenry Bates.[12]

In 1925 it absorbed theSacramento Star,which was founded in 1904.[13]

21st century

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On March 13, 2006, TheMcClatchy Companyannounced its agreement to purchaseKnight Ridder,the United States' second-largest chain of daily newspapers. The purchase price of $4.5 billion in cash and stock gave McClatchy 32 daily newspapers in 29 markets, with a total circulation of 3.3 million.[14][15]

On February 3, 2007, the paper celebrated its 150th anniversary, and a copy of the original issue was included in every newspaper. On February 4, 2007, a 120-page section was included about the paper's history from its founding to today. In 2008,The Sacramento Beeredesigned and changed its layout.[5][16]

In the fall of 2020, theBeeannounced[17]it would be vacating its longtime headquarters and printing plant inMidtown Sacramentoat 21st and Q Streets (which it occupied since 1952), citing the need to cut costs and streamline in the wake of declining ad revenues, the rise of online journalism and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, during which most journalists and employees worked from home. The paper began being printed at theSan Francisco Chronicleprinting plant in the Bay Area suburb ofFremont.The following spring, theBeeannounced[18]the editorial offices were relocating to the Cannery, a business park about a mile east, at Stockton and Alhambra Boulevards; the business park is the redevelopedLibby, McNeill and Libby Cannery,which operated from 1912 to 1982.

Recognition

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The Sacramento Beehas won sixPulitzer Prizesin its history.[19]It has won numerous other awards, including many for its progressive public service campaigns promoting free speech (theBeeoften criticized government policy, and uncovered many scandals hurting Californians), anti-racism (The Beesupported theUnionduring theAmerican Civil Warand publicly denounced theKu Klux Klan), worker's rights (The Beehas a strong history of supportingunionization), andenvironmental protection(leading numerous tree-planting campaigns and fighting against environmental destruction in theSierra Nevada).[20]

Notable people

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References

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  1. ^"McClatchy names Colleen McCain Nelson as new Sacramento Bee, California editor".The Sacramento Bee.Sacramento, CA. January 5, 2021.RetrievedJanuary 31,2021.
  2. ^abAlfano, Anthony (January 23, 2016)."The Alfano Group: 20 Things you probably didn't know about The Sacramento Bee newspaper".thealfanogroup.blogspot.RetrievedAugust 5,2018.
  3. ^"McClatchy | Markets".February 3, 2022. Archived fromthe originalon February 3, 2022.RetrievedApril 12,2023.
  4. ^"2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation"(PDF).BurrellesLuce. March 31, 2007. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on June 4, 2007.RetrievedMay 29,2007.
  5. ^abcdeHistory ofThe Sacramento Beefrom the newspaper's website
  6. ^Profile ofThe Sacramento BeeArchivedJuly 15, 2006, at theWayback Machinefrom The McClatchy Company website
  7. ^Lessons from Scoopy Bee,from McClatchy editor, Howard Weaver
  8. ^https://media.glassdoor /sqls/339846/the-sacramento-bee-squarelogo-1424936332982.png[bare URL image file]
  9. ^http://ca.audubon.org/sites/g/files/amh421/f/styles/bean_wysiwyg_full_width/public/sac-bee-logo.png[bare URL image file]
  10. ^"Working at The Sacramento Bee".Glassdoor.RetrievedAugust 5,2018.
  11. ^Carolyn Thomas Foreman (September 1936)."Edward W. Bushyhead and John Rollin Ridge, Cherokee Editors in California".Chronicles of Oklahoma.Oklahoma Historical Society.RetrievedOctober 22,2010.
  12. ^Richardson, Darcy G.Others: Third-Party Politics from the Nation's Founding to the Rise and Fall of the Greenback-Labor Party.iUniverse: 2004; p. 206.
  13. ^"About The Sacramento star".Library of Congress.RetrievedJune 25,2023.
  14. ^Katharine Q. Seelye and Andrew Ross Sorkin,"Newspaper Chain Agrees to a Sale for $4.5 Billion",The New York Times,March 13, 2006.
  15. ^Seelye, Katharine Q.; Sorkin, Andrew Ross (March 13, 2006)."Newspaper Chain Agrees to a Sale for $4.5 Billion".The New York Times.RetrievedAugust 5,2018.
  16. ^Sacramento Bee,January 1, 2008
  17. ^Sorich, Sonya (September 25, 2020)."Sacramento Bee says it's leaving 2100 Q St".Sacramento Business Journal.RetrievedJune 4,2023.
  18. ^Anderson, Mark (April 24, 2021)."Sacramento Bee leases space at The Cannery business park".Sacramento Business Journal.RetrievedJune 4,2023.
  19. ^"The Sacramento Bee's six Pulitzer Prizes".Sacramento Bee.Sacramento, CA. 2016.RetrievedJuly 22,2019.
  20. ^"Award-winning coverage that makes a difference".The Sacramento Bee.December 8, 2006.RetrievedApril 5,2011.
  21. ^Venteicher, Wes (December 4, 2018)."Gil Durán named to new post as California opinion editor".The Sacramento Bee.RetrievedMay 20,2016.
  22. ^"MANOPAUSE: Experts seeking treatments for middle-age male testosterone deficiencies".products.kitsapsun.RetrievedAugust 5,2018.
  23. ^Pierleoni, Allen (October 27, 2014)."Between the Lines: Spooky tales for Halloween".RetrievedAugust 5,2018– via Sacramento Bee.
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