Newspaper industry

Potential bidders emerge for KR

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Alan Gardner December 13, 2005 1 minute 0 comments

Perhaps ol’ Knight Ridder is an attractive buy after all.

Two major newspaper companies — Gannett and McClatchy — and a handful of private equity firms have expressed interest in buying San Jose-based Knight Ridder, raising the chances that the nation’s second-largest newspaper group could be sold sometime next year.