The Fresno Bee

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<tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"> Image:The Fresno Bee front page.jpg
The July 27, 2005 front page
of The Fresno Bee</td></tr> <tr><th>Publisher</th><td>Ray Steele Jr.</td></tr><tr><th>Editor</th><td>Betsy Lumbye</td></tr> <tr><th>Circulation</th><td>160,800 Daily
186,500 Sunday</td></tr>

The Fresno Bee
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet

Owner	The McClatchy Company
Founded	1922
Headquarters	1626 E Street Fresno, CA 93786 United States

Website: FresnoBee.com

The Fresno Bee is the daily newspaper serving Fresno, California and surrounding counties in that U.S. state's San Joaquin Valley. It is owned by The McClatchy Company and ranks fourth in circulation among the company's newspapers.

Carlos McClatchy founded The Fresno Bee in 1922. He was the son of C.K. McClatchy, longtime editor and guiding owner of The Sacramento Bee. The two Central Valley newspapers were closely linked by family ownership and editorial philosophy and formed the core of what grew into The McClatchy Company. In 1926, the McClatchys purchased an older Fresno newspaper, The Republican. The Fresno Republican had been founded in 1876, by Dr. Chester A. Rowell and a group of investors that included inventor and entrepreneur Frank Dusy. In 1932, The Bee took over the subscription lists of The Fresno Republican and merged the newspapers.

The paper launched its website in 1996; in November 2005, the paper integrated its online operations into the paper's other departments. The Bee was following the example of The New York Times and other newspapers hoping to combine the creative strengths of the worlds of digital and print journalism.