Clarity Media Group

Clarity Media Group is the holding company for media properties owned by Philip F. Anschutz. These include the San Francisco Examiner and the Washington Examiner. An Examiner newspaper in Baltimore was shut down in February 2009.

Clarity Media has trademarked the name "Examiner" for possible future newspapers in dozens of other U.S. cities. The company also operates news portal websites in numerous cities under the "examiner.com" name, and is seeking editors to oversee regional and local content for those websites.

On June 17, 2009, Clarity Media Group acquired The Weekly Standard, a conservative opinion journal, from Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

Ryan McKibben is Clarity Media Group's CEO.

Related SourceWatch articles

 * Philip F. Anschutz

External articles

 * Clarity Media Group profile on AEG (Anschutz Entertainment Group) website
 * "Phil Anschutz: Media Wildcatter", Business Week, April 25, 2005.
 * Dirk Smillie, "The Stealth Media Mogul: Billionaire Philip Anschutz is quietly building a small empire of social-networking sites, newspapers and now a leading conservative weekly," Forbes.com, June 29, 2009.