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PHOTO: Newspaper's Humongous Fail

Posted 12.01.2011 | Media

South Carolina's Greenville News had one copy edit mistake that packed a whole lot of punch. In an Associated Press article about the upcoming coll...

Gannett Making "Significant Investment in Video"

Andy Plesser | Posted 01.01.2012 | Media

Andy Plesser

Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper group, is making a "significant investment in video" through site redesign, content acquisition, training of ...

Gannett Income Falls In Q3

AP | BARBARA ORTUTAY | Posted 12.17.2011 | Media

NEW YORK — Gannett Co., the publisher of USA Today and 81 other daily newspapers, posted a slight decline in its third-quarter net income Monday...

Gannett CEO Resigns For Health Reasons

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 12.07.2011 | Media

Gannett Co. chairman and CEO Craig Dubow has resigned for health reasons. His tenure coincided with a steep decline in print advertising that triggere...

Arthur Delaney

Laid Off Journalist Reports His Own Job Search

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 11.12.2011 | Business

In June, Robert Annis lost his long-time job as a reporter at the Indianapolis Star when media conglomerate and Star owner Gannett cut 700 employees t...

Gannett Reports Lower Q2 Earnings

AP | BARBARA ORTUTAY | Posted 09.17.2011 | Media

NEW YORK — Increases in digital and broadcast revenue were not enough to make up for the ongoing decline in Gannett Co.'s newspaper business, le...

New Cyberattack Targets U.S. Soldiers

Posted 08.29.2011 | Technology

By Jim Finkle BOSTON (Reuters) - Hackers broke into a Gannett Co database containing personal information about subscribers to publications read ...

Why Laying Off Ag Reporter Philip Brasher Is Bad for Food

Paula Crossfield | Posted 08.24.2011 | Food

Paula Crossfield

The agriculture beat was once an important area of coverage at all major outlets, delivering information about rural areas as well as policy making on food in Washington. But the "agriculture beat" has been dying a slow death for five decades.

Another Huge Round Of Cuts At Gannett

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 08.21.2011 | Media

SAN FRANCISCO — Newspaper publisher Gannett Co. is laying off 700 workers, or 2 percent of its work force, in the latest cutback triggered by a ...

USA Today Posts Tiny Circulation Gain

AP | Posted 06.19.2011 | Media

McLEAN, Va. — USA Today said Tuesday that its average daily circulation rose for the first time in more than two years, as the newspaper sold mo...

Big Newspaper Chain Posts Bleak Quarterly Earnings

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 06.18.2011 | Media

A prolonged slide in Gannett Co.'s newspaper business overshadowed improvements in the company's broadcast and online operations as the publisher of U...

Honolulu Newspaper Deal: DOJ Approves Honolulu Advertiser's Sale To Honolulu Star-Bulletin

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

HONOLULU — The U.S. Justice Department has given the owner of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin the go-head to buy longtime rival The Honolulu Advertis...

Zed's Dead - Law, Finance, and the Future of Online Publishing (Part Two)

Peter Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Peter Schwartz

  "Whose motorcycle is this?" "It's a chopper, baby." "Whose chopper is this?" "Zed's" "Who's Zed?&q...

Zed's Dead - Law, Finance, and the Future of Online Publishing (Part One)

Peter Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Peter Schwartz

  "Whose motorcycle is this?" "It's a chopper, baby." "Whose chopper is this?" "Zed's" "Who's Zed?&q...

Exec Bonuses/Newsroom Outsourcing a Virtueless Circle

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Michael Sigman

Media companies have to make cuts to stay in business, and some outsourcing is inevitable. But rewarding execs with big bonuses for, in effect, taking away workers' health insurance is unconscionable.

Kentucky's Ultimate Watchdog Journalist

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Don McNay

In April, Al Cross is being inducted in the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame. No one worked harder or longer to gather all the nuances of a story than Al Cross.

USA Today Furloughs Mandated To Save Money

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

McLEAN, Va. — USA Today is forcing its staff to take an unpaid week off to help the nation's second largest newspaper cope with a persisting ad ...

A Reporter's Survival Guide for Journalism in the Digital Age

Shana Ting Lipton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Shana Ting Lipton

It's painful but it's progress, and if as journalists we choose to put all our valued energy into fighting the inevitable, we may as well join the Flat Earth Society.

Gannett Turns A Profit In 4Q, Ad Sales Still Dropping

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Gannett Co. posted its largest profit of the year in the fourth quarter as cost-cutting efforts were aided by a lessening decline in advertising sales...

Gannett Profit Down 53%

AP | ANDREW VANACORE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

NEW YORK — Net income at Gannett Co. fell 53 percent in the third quarter as the nation's largest newspaper publisher endured another big declin...

Goodbye to USA Today...And All of That

Chris Gray Faust | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

Chris Gray Faust

To the managers who made the decision to lay me off, in less than 140 characters I tell you: Good luck steering the Titanic. And thanks for the head start. Now I'm really going to run.

Gannett Job Cuts Hit USA Today, Magazine

AP | ANDREW VANACORE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

NEW YORK — Newspaper publisher Gannett Co. imposed a new round of cutbacks Tuesday, with USA Today reducing its newsroom staff by 5 percent, as ...

Craig Dubow, Gannett CEO, Returns After Back Surgey

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

McLEAN, Va. — The CEO of Gannett Co., the country's largest newspaper publisher, returned to work Thursday after a medical leave this summer for bac...

Gannett Now Cutting Severance PayFor Laid-Off Employees

New York Times | RICHARD PÉREZ | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

But rather than pay severance, as it did in previous rounds, Gannett is paying what is called supplemental unemployment benefits, which allows the com...

Gannett Posts Profit, Beats Expecations, But Revenue Falls

AP | MICHAEL LIEDTKE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

SAN FRANCISCO — Gannett Co., the largest U.S. newspaper publisher, used sharp cost cuts to deliver a higher-than-expected second-quarter profit ...