MediaNews expands on Real Cities Network

Cory Bergman September 6th, 2007

McClatchy’s Real Cities Network has just added 51 more properties from the MediaNews Group. “We felt that it would be advantageous to us both to make their entire company an affiliate,” said David Fitzpatrick, vice president of sales for McClatchy Interactive. “What we’re doing is offering up our expertise in becoming a national sales channel for them. They have empowered us to become a sales extension of MediaNews Group.”

Both groups are part of the Yahoo newspaper consortium, and Fitzpatrick said the Real Cities expansion doesn’t impact that relationship.