rights movement, published a front-page package of stories and archive photos documenting Lexingtonians involved in the movement. The stories, written by Linda B. Blackford and Linda Minch, received international attention, including a story on the front page of The New York Times. It also received an annual professional award by the Kentucky chapter of the Special Libraries Association. On June 27, 2006, the McClatchy Company purchased Knight Ridder for approximately $4 billion in cash and stock. It also assumed Knight Ridder debt of $2 billion. McClatchy sold 12 Knight Ridder papers, but the Herald-Leader was one of 20 retained. Office and production plant The Herald-Leaders new office and production plant facility was completed in September 1980 at a cost of $23 million. It was a structure that featured 14 Goss Metro offset presses that had the capacity to produce 600,000 newspapers in a typical week. The plant is on a lot at the corner of East Main Street and Midland. The $23 million cost was divided into $7,804,000 for architecture, $750,000 for interiors and $8,500,000 for production equipment and presses. In June 2016, it was announced that the Herald-Leader would cease its printing operations in Lexington, passing that role to Louisville-based Gannett Publishing Services. As a result of the move, 25 full-time and 4 part-time employees would be laid-off. It was also announced that the plant would be put up for sale, with the Fayette County property valuation administrator assessing the property at $6.84 million for tax purposes. The first issue of the Louisville-printed Herald-Leader published on August 1, 2016. The last issue of the Lexington Herald-Leader to be printed in Lexington was printed on July 31, 2016. It marked the end of 229 years of newspaper printing in Lexington. The Herald-Leader building has been proposed as a new city hall for the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government. Remaining staff will be relocated to a smaller office space upon the sale of the building. See also The Courier-Journal – Kentucky's largest newspaper Lexington Herald Building List of newspapers in Kentucky References External links Lexington Herald-Leader official site Lexington Herald-Leader mobile site The McClatchy Company's subsidiary profile of the Lexington Herald-Leader John C. Wyatt Lexington Herald-Leader photographs collection, University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center James Edwin Weddle photographic collection, University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center Newspapers published in Kentucky McClatchy publications Mass media in Lexington, Kentucky Publications established