The Modesto Bee

{{Short description|Newspaper in Modesto, California}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox newspaper

| name = The Modesto Bee

| image = The Modesto Bee front page.jpg

| image_size = 175px

| caption = The July 27, 2005 front page
of The Modesto Bee.

| type = Daily newspaper

| format = Broadsheet

| foundation = 1884
(as Daily Evening News)

| ceased publication =

| owners = Chatham Asset Management, LLC
(formerly: McClatchy Company){{cite web | title = McClatchy, Family-Run News Chain, Goes to Hedge Fund in Bankruptcy Sale | work = The New York Times |date=August 2020 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/business/media/mcclatchy-newspapers-bankrutpcy-chatham.html | access-date =November 22, 2020}}

| language = English

| political =

| circulation = 29,108 Daily
25,098 Sunday

| circulation_date = 2020

| circulation_ref = {{Cite web |date=2021-11-29 |title=McClatchy {{!}} Markets |url=https://www.mcclatchy.com/our-impact/markets/the-modesto-bee/ |access-date=2023-04-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211129124420/https://www.mcclatchy.com/our-impact/markets/the-modesto-bee/ |archive-date=2021-11-29 }}

| publishing_city = Modesto, California

| publishing_country = US

| headquarters = (209) 578-2000
(800) 776-4237

| ISSN =

| website = {{URL|modbee.com}}

}}

The Modesto Bee is a California newspaper. It has about 70 employees and is delivered throughout central California, reaching places such as Modesto, Turlock, Oakdale, Ceres, Patterson and Sonora.