Article: Longtime family business now an orphan: NEWS TRIBUNE:Ridder and Knight Ridder have provided 70 years of stable ownership for Duluth's daily newspaper.

Byline: Jane Brissett

Mar. 14--The Duluth News Tribune's association with Ridder Publications Inc. and later Knight Ridder Inc., has meant strong, stable newspaper ownership in the community for 70 years. McClatchy Co., the winning bidder for the 32-newspaper Knight Ridder chain, announced Monday that it will turn around and sell a dozen of those papers, including the News Tribune. "That is not good news for us," Publisher Marti Buscaglia said at a newspaper employee meeting Monday morning. "Now we're going to be sold twice in three to six months." The uncertainty that has hung over the newspaper's future since November, when Knight Ridder put itself ...

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