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{{Short description|Daily newspaper in Sacramento, Calif., US}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2016}}
{{Infobox newspaper
| name = The Sacramento Bee
| image = The Sacramento Bee front page.jpg
| image_size = 225px
| caption = Front page of ''The Sacramento Bee'',<br />July 27, 2005
| type = Daily newspaper
| format = [[Broadsheet]]
| foundation = 1857 (as ''The Daily Bee'')<ref name=alfano2016>{{cite web|url=http://thealfanogroup.blogspot.com/2016/01/20-things-you-probably-didnt-know-about.html|title=The Alfano Group: 20 Things you probably didn't know about The Sacramento Bee newspaper.|first=Anthony|last=Alfano|date=January 23, 2016|website=thealfanogroup.blogspot.com|access-date=August 5, 2018}}</ref>
| ceased publication = 
| owners = [[The McClatchy Company]]
| editor = Colleen McCain Nelson<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=McClatchy names Colleen McCain Nelson as new Sacramento Bee, California editor |url=https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article194456624.html |work=The Sacramento Bee |location=Sacramento, CA |date=January 5, 2021 |access-date=January 31, 2021 }}</ref>
| circulation = 90,244 Daily<br/>142,589 Sunday
| circulation_date = 2020
| circulation_ref = <ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-02-03 |title=McClatchy {{!}} Markets |url=https://www.mcclatchy.com/our-impact/markets/the-sacramento-bee/ |access-date=2023-04-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220203133843/https://www.mcclatchy.com/our-impact/markets/the-sacramento-bee/ |archive-date=February 3, 2022 }}</ref>
| headquarters = 1601 Alhambra Boulevard, Suite 100<br/>[[Sacramento, California]] 95816<br />USA
| ISSN = 0890-5738
| oclc = 37706143
| website = [http://sacbee.com/ sacbee.com]
}}

'''''The Sacramento Bee''''' is a daily newspaper published in [[Sacramento, California]], in the United States. Since its foundation in 1857, ''The Bee'' has become the largest newspaper in Sacramento, the fifth largest newspaper in California, and the 27th largest paper in the U.S.<ref name="luce">{{cite web
|title=2007 Top 100 Daily Newspapers in the U.S. by Circulation |publisher=BurrellesLuce
|url=http://www.burrellesluce.com/top100/2007_Top_100List.pdf |access-date=2007-05-29
|date=31 March 2007 |archive-date=June 4, 2007
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070604184120/http://www.burrellesluce.com/top100/2007_Top_100List.pdf}}</ref> It is distributed in the upper [[Sacramento Valley]], with a total circulation area that spans about {{convert|12000|sqmi|km2}}: south to [[Stockton, California]], north to the [[Oregon]] border, east to [[Reno, Nevada]], and west to the [[San Francisco Bay Area]].<ref name="hist">[http://www.sacbee.com/customer-service/about-us/ History of ''The Sacramento Bee''] from the newspaper's website</ref><ref>[http://www.mcclatchy.com/146/story/450.html Profile of ''The Sacramento Bee''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060715013856/http://www.mcclatchy.com/146/story/450.html |date=July 15, 2006 }} from The McClatchy Company website</ref>

''The Bee'' is the flagship of the nationwide [[McClatchy Company]].<ref name="hist"/> Its "Scoopy Bee" mascot,<ref>[http://editor.blogspot.com/2007/03/lessons-from-sacramento.html Lessons from Scoopy Bee], from McClatchy editor, Howard Weaver</ref><ref>https://media.glassdoor.com/sqls/339846/the-sacramento-bee-squarelogo-1424936332982.png {{Bare URL image|date=March 2022}}</ref><ref>http://ca.audubon.org/sites/g/files/amh421/f/styles/bean_wysiwyg_full_width/public/sac-bee-logo.png {{Bare URL image|date=March 2022}}</ref> created by [[Walt Disney]] in 1943, has been used by all three ''Bee'' newspapers (in Sacramento,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-The-Sacramento-Bee-EI_IE339846.11,29.htm|title=Working at The Sacramento Bee|website=Glassdoor|access-date=August 5, 2018}}</ref> [[The Modesto Bee|Modesto]], and [[The Fresno Bee|Fresno]]).<ref name="hist"/>

== History ==
Under the name ''The Daily Bee'', the first issue of the newspaper was published on February 3, 1857, proudly boasting that "the object of this newspaper is not only independence, but permanence".<ref name="hist"/> At this time, ''The Bee'' was in competition with the ''[[Sacramento Union]]'', a newspaper founded in 1851.<ref name="alfano2016" /> Although ''The Bee'' soon surpassed the ''Union'' in popularity, the ''Union'' survived until its closure in 1994, leaving ''The Sacramento Bee'' to be the longest-running newspaper in the city's history.

The first editor of ''The Sacramento Bee'' was [[John Rollin Ridge]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://digital.library.okstate.edu/chronicles/v014/v014p295.html |title=Edward W. Bushyhead and John Rollin Ridge, Cherokee Editors in California |author=Carolyn Thomas Foreman |date=September 1936 |work=Chronicles of Oklahoma |publisher=Oklahoma Historical Society |access-date=October 22, 2010}}</ref> but [[James McClatchy]] took over the position by the end of the first week.

Also within a week of its creation, ''The Bee'' uncovered a state scandal which led to the impeachment of [[Know Nothing|Know-Nothing]] [[California State Treasurer]] [[Henry Bates (US politician)|Henry Bates]].<ref>Richardson, Darcy G. ''Others: Third-Party Politics from the Nation's Founding to the Rise and Fall of the Greenback-Labor Party''. iUniverse: 2004; p. 206.</ref>

In 1925 it absorbed the ''Sacramento Star'', which was founded in 1904.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn91038071/ | publisher=Library of Congress | title=About The Sacramento star. | date= | accessdate=June 25, 2023}}</ref>

=== 21st century ===
On March 13, 2006, The [[McClatchy Company]] announced its agreement to purchase [[Knight Ridder]], the United States' second-largest chain of daily newspapers. The purchase price of $4.5 billion in cash and stock gave McClatchy 32 daily newspapers in 29 markets, with a total circulation of 3.3 million.<ref>Katharine Q. Seelye and Andrew Ross Sorkin, [https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/13/business/media/13knight.html "Newspaper Chain Agrees to a Sale for $4.5 Billion"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', March 13, 2006.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/13/business/media/newspaper-chain-agrees-to-a-sale-for-45-billion.html|title=Newspaper Chain Agrees to a Sale for $4.5 Billion|first1=Katharine Q. |first2=Andrew Ross|last1=Seelye|last2=Sorkin|date=13 March 2006|website=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=August 5, 2018}}</ref>

On February 3, 2007, the paper celebrated its 150th anniversary, and a copy of the original issue was included in every newspaper. On February 4, 2007, a 120-page section was included about the paper's history from its founding to today. In 2008, ''The Sacramento Bee'' redesigned and changed its layout.<ref name="hist" /><ref>''Sacramento Bee'', January 1, 2008</ref>

In the fall of 2020, the ''Bee'' announced<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sorich |first=Sonya |date=September 25, 2020 |title=Sacramento Bee says it's leaving 2100 Q St. |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2020/09/25/sacramento-bee-leaving-q-street-location.html |access-date=2023-06-04 |website=Sacramento Business Journal}}</ref> it would be vacating its longtime headquarters and printing plant in [[Midtown Sacramento]] at 21st and Q Streets (which it occupied since 1952), citing the need to cut costs and streamline in the wake of declining ad revenues, the rise of online journalism and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, during which most journalists and employees worked from home. The paper began being printed at the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' printing plant in the Bay Area suburb of [[Fremont, California|Fremont]]. The following spring, the ''Bee'' announced<ref>{{Cite web |last=Anderson |first=Mark |date=April 24, 2021 |title=Sacramento Bee leases space at The Cannery business park |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2021/04/24/sacramento-bee-cannery.html |access-date=June 4, 2023 |website=Sacramento Business Journal}}</ref> the editorial offices were relocating to the Cannery, a business park about a mile east, at Stockton and Alhambra Boulevards; the business park is the redeveloped [[Libby, McNeill and Libby Cannery]], which operated from 1912 to 1982.

== Recognition ==
''The Sacramento Bee'' has won six [[Pulitzer Prize]]s in its history.<ref>{{cite news |author=  |date=2016 |title=The Sacramento Bee's six Pulitzer Prizes |url=https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article72507372.html |work=Sacramento Bee |location=Sacramento, CA |access-date=2019-07-22 }}</ref> It has won numerous other awards, including many for its progressive public service campaigns promoting free speech (the ''Bee'' often criticized government policy, and uncovered many scandals hurting Californians), anti-racism (''The Bee'' supported the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] during the [[American Civil War]] and publicly denounced the [[Ku Klux Klan]]), worker's rights (''The Bee'' has a strong history of supporting [[Trade union|unionization]]), and [[environmental protection]] (leading numerous tree-planting campaigns and fighting against environmental destruction in the [[Sierra Nevada (U.S.)|Sierra Nevada]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://guide.sacbee.com/105/story/19.html |title=Award-winning coverage that makes a difference|date=December 8, 2006 |access-date=April 5, 2011 |work= The Sacramento Bee}}</ref>

==Notable people==
*[[Deborah Blum]] – science writer
*[[Renée C. Byer]] – photojournalist
*[[Gil Duran]] – California opinion editor and former [[Press Secretary]] for California governor [[Jerry Brown]].<ref>{{cite web |access-date=2016-05-20 |url=https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/the-conversation/article222622450.html |title=Gil Durán named to new post as California opinion editor |work=The Sacramento Bee |author= Venteicher, Wes |date=2018-12-04}}</ref>
*[[Jack Ohman]] – cartoonist
*[[Nick Peters]] – baseball writer
*[[Paul Avery]] – journalist who reported on the [[Zodiac killer]]
*[[Nancy Weaver Teichert]] – former reporter<ref>{{cite web|url=https://products.kitsapsun.com/archive/2002/07-22/0011_manopause__experts_seeking_treatm.html|title=MANOPAUSE: Experts seeking treatments for middle-age male testosterone deficiencies.|website=products.kitsapsun.com|access-date=August 5, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sacbee.com/entertainment/books/article3403500.html|title=Between the Lines: Spooky tales for Halloween|first=Allen|last=Pierleoni|date=October 27, 2014|access-date=August 5, 2018|via=Sacramento Bee}}</ref>

== References ==
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== External links ==

* [http://www.sacbee.com/ ''The Sacramento Bee'']
* [http://www.capitolalert.com CapitolAlert.com] [[United States Capitol|Capitol]] politics by ''The Sacramento Bee''
* [https://localwiki.org/sac/Sacramento_Bee Sacramento Bee] - Sacramento [[LocalWiki]]
* {{cite web|url=https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/The-Sacramento-Bee-Reviews-E339846.htm|title=The Sacramento Bee|website=Glassdoor Reviews}}

* [https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt4p3025zf/ McClatchy Company records] - [http://www.centerforsacramentohistory.org/ Center for Sacramento History]
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