Romenesko

BusinessWeek
In Jon Fine's screenplay, McClatchy and the New York Times Co. team up to outbid a consortium of private equity firms to buy Knight Ridder's 32 dailies. "A McClatchy-Times partnership would bring breathing room and a stack of complementary strengths," he writes. "The Times Co. has big-city (and big-union) bona fides. McClatchy, skilled in operating in smaller markets, could run the 15 smaller Southeastern and California newspapers in the Times's Regional Newspaper Group."