User:Media Maven/McClatchy-Tribune Information Services

Submission declined on 4 January 2013 by 78.26 (talk).

Thank you for your submission, but the subject of this article already exists in Wikipedia.

If you would like to continue working on the submission, click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the window.
If you have not resolved the issues listed above, your draft will be declined again and potentially deleted.
If you need extra help, please ask us a question at the AfC Help Desk or get live help from experienced editors.
Please do not remove reviewer comments or this notice until the submission is accepted.

Where to get help

If you need help editing or submitting your draft, please ask us a question at the AfC Help Desk or get live help from experienced editors. These venues are only for help with editing and the submission process, not to get reviews.
If you need feedback on your draft, or if the review is taking a lot of time, you can try asking for help on the talk page of a relevant WikiProject. Some WikiProjects are more active than others so a speedy reply is not guaranteed.

How to improve a draft

Wikipedia:Contributing to Wikipedia – a basic overview on how to edit Wikipedia.
Help:Wikitext – how to use the markup
Help:Referencing for beginners – how to include references
Wikipedia:Article development – how to develop your article
Wikipedia:Writing better articles – how to improve your article
Wikipedia:Verifiability – make sure your article includes reliable third-party sources

You can also browse Wikipedia:Featured articles and Wikipedia:Good articles to find examples of Wikipedia's best writing on topics similar to your proposed article.

Improving your odds of a speedy review

To improve your odds of a faster review, tag your draft with relevant WikiProject tags using the button below. This will let reviewers know a new draft has been submitted in their area of interest. For instance, if you wrote about a female astronomer, you would want to add the Biography, Astronomy, and Women scientists tags.

Add tags to your draft

Editor resources

Easy tools: Citation bot (help) | Advanced: Fix bare URLs

This draft has not been edited in over six months and qualifies to be deleted per CSD G13.

Declined by 78.26 11 years ago. Last edited by Media Maven 11 years ago. Reviewer: Inform author.

Resubmit

Please note that if the issues are not fixed, the draft will be declined again.

Comment: See McClatchy-Tribune Information Services 78.26 (I'm no IP, talk to me!) 04:13, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Overview

McClatchy-Tribune Information Services (MCT) is a U.S.-based news agency. A 50/50 joint venture between The McClatchy Co. and the Tribune Co., MCT was founded in 1973 by Knight Newspapers and the Tribune Co. McClatchy acquired half ownership with its purchase of Knight Ridder in 2006.

McClatchy-Tribune Information Services provides news stories, feature articles, photos, graphics, illustrations, caricatures, themed content packages and paginated products. With contributions from hundreds of newspapers in the United States and abroad and material produced by its own staff, MCT supplies content to 1,200 media clients worldwide. MCT is also a major provider of content to online information services.

MCT also enhances its content with topic, geography and company data –- all powered by a news-centric ontology built and refined daily by MCT editors. This service, MCT SmartContent, sells targeted subsets of articles to a variety of clients.

The MCT products are marketed worldwide by Tribune Media Services, the content-licensing unit of the Tribune Co.

History

1973: MCT began as the Knight News Wire -- based at the Detroit Free Press, to share stories among the Knight and Tribune Co. newspapers. When it made its debut beyond Knight and Tribune newspapers on July 3, 1973, it counted 25 subscribers.

1974: Knight Newspapers and Ridder Publications merged to form Knight-Ridder Inc., and was for a brief time the largest newspaper company in the United States.

1977: The Knight News Wire moved to Washington, D.C., where the newsgathering and processing operations were located on the seventh floor of the National Press Building, two blocks from the White House.

1985: The Knight-Ridder Graphics Network was founded at Knight-Ridder corporate offices in Miami. The service moved to Washington, D.C., in 1986. In 1988, Knight-Ridder Graphics merged with both the Chicago Tribune graphic service and Infographics, a service purchased from King Features, to form the Knight-Ridder/Tribune Graphics Network and become part of the joint venture.

1988: The Photo Service was launched. Delivered via satellite broadcast to contributors and clients around the country, the Photo Service quickly grew into the second-largest daily provider of news pictures in the U.S.

1984 to 1990: Several other newspapers became contributors to KRT News Service: The Dallas Morning News, The Seattle Times and The Orange County Register.

1990: News In Motion was launched as an offshoot of KRT Graphics and then became a separate department. NIM created daily breaking news animations for television and the Web. NIM stopped operations at the end of 2004.

1992: Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News, now Regional News, was born, aimed at corporations and businesses seeking the latest information from their field. It was the first KRT service not targeted primarily at newspapers or broadcast news outlets. ^[1]

1993: KRT Graphics introduced Faces in the News, offering weekly caricatures of newsmakers. A year later, it launched the Illustration Bank, a collection of news and feature illustrations. MCT now offers an extensive archive of caricatures and illustrations created by artists from MCT member papers.

1994: KRT Graphics opened an office in Aarhus, Denmark, to produce graphics for international newspaper clients. This was the birth of KRT Europe. At its zenith, KRT Europe had staff in Denmark, Germany and Sweden, with translators in several other countries including Norway and Poland. KRT Europe continued until December 2009.

1997: KRT Graphics started KRT Interactive to create interactive feature graphics for the growing number of newspaper websites. It ended in 2001.

1998: The first weekly paginated page targeted young readers for newspapers that had neither the time nor staff to produce special pages for readers 18 and under. This product marked the beginning of Special Sections. During the next five years, Special Sections added That’s Racin’, a popular weekly NASCAR page, and spot OnePages on current events, sports, entertainment, fashion, business and weather. KRT Graphics took over the production and distribution of paginated pages in 2012.

2001: KRT took over the college news service that had previously been TMS Campus. Renamed KRT Campus, now MCT Campus, the service moves MCT stories and visuals to hundreds of college newspapers across the country.

2006: After McClatchy Co. acquired Knight Ridder,^[2] ^[3] the service became McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. Also in 2006, MCT Business News expanded into a new business -- MCT Regional News. MCT Regional News aggregates approximately 2 million stories and blogs from more than 550 English-language news producers in the U.S. and other countries. ^[4]

2010: The Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service (LATWP) dissolved, and the Los Angeles Times joined MCT as a content provider.^[5] ^[6] ^[7] ^[8] Also in 2010, MCT SmartContent began; it enhances content from all MCT news services with topic, geography and company data –- all powered by a news-centric ontology. Businesses, organizations and individuals can purchase daily feeds of articles that are curated to their interests. MCT also licenses use of the ontology.

References

^ Comtex News Network, Inc. "news service". http://www.comtexnews.net/index.aspx. Retrieved 18 December 2012. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
^ Lieberman, David (3/13/2006). "McClatchy to buy Knight Ridder for $4.5 billion". USA Today. Retrieved 9 January 2013. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); External link in |work= (help); More than one of |work= and |newspaper= specified (help)
^ Favre, Gregory. "McClatchy-Knight Ridder Deal: A Hopeful Sign for Journalism in the Public Interest". http://www.poynter.org/. Retrieved 9 January 2013. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
^ The News Tribune. "The McClatchy Company history". http://www.thenewstribune.com/. Retrieved 18 December 2012. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
^ Kurtz, Howard (10/1/2009). "L.A. Times, Post to End Joint News Service". The Washington Post. Retrieved 18 December 2012. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); External link in |work= (help); More than one of |work= and |newspaper= specified (help)
^ AP (10/1/2009). "Los Angeles Times and Washington Post Break Up News Service". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 December 2012. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); External link in |work= (help); More than one of |work= and |newspaper= specified (help)
^ Liedtke, Michael. "Los Angeles Times, Washington Post Breaking Up News Service". http://www.huffingtonpost.com/. Huffington Post. Retrieved 18 December 2012. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)
^ Roderick, Kevin. "Times, WashPost go their own ways". http://www.laobserved.com/. LA Observed. Retrieved 18 December 2012. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

External Links

Official websites: MCT Direct, MCT International, MCT Campus and MCT SmartContent

Update and questions for editors

At the suggestion of a helpful editor on the live chat help desk, I updated the McClatchy Co. and Tribune Co. articles with some relevant information about MCT. Most of the details about MCT don't belong on 1 of these 2 pages, since MCT is a joint venture of the 2 companies. What I'd like to do is to follow the suggestion of the help desk editor and link these 2 articles to this MCT page, if the article can get approved.

The subject of my article was never covered by either of the parent pages, since MCT wasn't even mentioned in them. The content of my article doesn't belong in full in either of the 2, though, since MCT is a joint venture.

Can someone please take a look at my proposal and offer some feedback?

--Media Maven (talk) 21:59, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

[Comtex-1] Comtex News Network, Inc. "news service". http://www.comtexnews.net/index.aspx. Retrieved 18 December 2012. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

[2] Lieberman, David (3/13/2006). "McClatchy to buy Knight Ridder for $4.5 billion". USA Today. Retrieved 9 January 2013. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); External link in |work= (help); More than one of |work= and |newspaper= specified (help)

[3] Favre, Gregory. "McClatchy-Knight Ridder Deal: A Hopeful Sign for Journalism in the Public Interest". http://www.poynter.org/. Retrieved 9 January 2013. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

[McClatchy_history-4] The News Tribune. "The McClatchy Company history". http://www.thenewstribune.com/. Retrieved 18 December 2012. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

[5] Kurtz, Howard (10/1/2009). "L.A. Times, Post to End Joint News Service". The Washington Post. Retrieved 18 December 2012. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); External link in |work= (help); More than one of |work= and |newspaper= specified (help)

[6] AP (10/1/2009). "Los Angeles Times and Washington Post Break Up News Service". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 December 2012. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); External link in |work= (help); More than one of |work= and |newspaper= specified (help)

[7] Liedtke, Michael. "Los Angeles Times, Washington Post Breaking Up News Service". http://www.huffingtonpost.com/. Huffington Post. Retrieved 18 December 2012. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

[8] Roderick, Kevin. "Times, WashPost go their own ways". http://www.laobserved.com/. LA Observed. Retrieved 18 December 2012. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]