- The Modesto Bee
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The Modesto Bee 
The July 27, 2005 front page
of The Modesto Bee.Type Daily newspaper Format Broadsheet Owner McClatchy Company Publisher Eric Johnston Editor Mark Vasché Founded 1884
(as Daily Evening News)Headquarters 1325 H Street
Modesto, CA 95352
United StatesCirculation 86,000 Daily
94,000 SundayOfficial website www.ModBee.com The Modesto Bee is a California newspaper, originally founded in 1884 as the Daily Evening News and published continuously as a daily under a variety of names. Prior to its purchase by Charles K. McClatchy and McClatchy Newspapers in 1924, it merged in the same year with the Modesto News-Herald, adopting that name as part of a consolidation. In 1933 it changed its name to the Modesto Bee and News-Herald, and in 1975 abbreviated the name on its masthead to the Modesto Bee. Its current owner, is the descendant firm, McClatchy Company, an American newspaper corporation.
The Modesto Bee has about 150 employees and is delivered throughout central California, reaching places such as Manteca, Merced, Patterson and Sonora. It currently serves 70,000 morning subscribers and 80,000 on Sundays.[citation needed]
External links
- The Modesto Bee official website
- The Modesto Bee official mobile website
- The McClatchy Company's subsidiary profile of The Modesto Bee
- Google News Archive microfilm archive 1927-2008
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Categories:- Californian newspaper stubs
- Newspapers published in California
- McClatchy publications
- Modesto, California
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