The Sacramento Bee
Front page of The Sacramento Bee, April 29, 2024 | |
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | The McClatchy Company |
| Editor | Colleen McCain Nelson |
| Founded | 1857 (as The Daily Bee) |
| Headquarters | 1601 Alhambra Boulevard, Suite 100 Sacramento, California 95816 USA |
| Circulation | 90,244 Daily 142,589 Sunday (as of 2020) |
| ISSN | 0890-5738 |
| OCLC number | 37706143 |
| Website | 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. It is distributed in the upper Sacramento Valley, with a total circulation area that spans about 12,000 square miles (31,000 km2): south to Stockton, California, north to the Oregon border, east to Reno, Nevada, and west to the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Bee is the flagship of the nationwide McClatchy Company. Its "Scoopy Bee" mascot, created by Walt Disney in 1943, has been used by all three Bee newspapers (in Sacramento, Modesto, and Fresno).