Larry Jinks

Larry Jinks has been a director of McClatchy since July 1995. He spent 37 years with Knight Newspapers and Knight-Ridder, Inc., a newspaper publishing company. During that time, he served as managing editor of The Miami Herald from 1966 to 1972, as executive editor of The Miami Herald from 1972 to 1976, as editor of the San Jose Mercury News from 1977 to 1981, as a corporate officer of Knight-Ridder from 1981 to 1989, and as publisher of the San Jose Mercury News from 1989 to 1994. He is a former member of the executive committee of the Media Management Center at Northwestern University and former chairman of the Knight Foundation's Journalism Advisory Committee.