Bankrupt newspapers receive some unexpected support - too late?

Newspapers and mayors aren’t always friendly. If journalists aren’t prying into the inner workings of City Hall, they aren’t doing their jobs. Tension needn’t breed animosity, though, and a couple of big-city mayors went to bat for their local newspapers last month.

The list is impressive. Mayors from Miami, Sacramento, Kansas City, Lexington, Kentucky, and Raleigh, North Carolina, all took a public stand in favor of local journalism after the McClatchy Company, which owns newspapers in each of those cities, declared bankruptcy in February. McClatchy is a storied, family-owned chain with newspapers in 30 markets around the country, including four in Washington — The Bellingham Herald, The Olympian, The (Tacoma) News Tribune and the Tri-City Herald.

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