Patrick J. Talamantes to Succeed Gary B. Pruitt as President and CEO of McClatchy

The McClatchy Company

announced today that Gary B. Pruitt, chairman, president and chief executive of McClatchy, will leave the company May 16, 2012, to become president and chief executive of The Associated Press. McClatchy's Board of Directors has named Patrick J. Talamantes, McClatchy's current vice president, finance and CFO, as Pruitt's successor. Talamantes, 47, will assume the title of president and CEO and join the company's Board of Directors. Kevin S. McClatchy, a director of McClatchy since 1998 and a fifth-generation member of the founding McClatchy family, will become chairman of the Board.