Word: gannett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buyer was Gannett newspapers, a string of 15 dailies (total circ. 877,000) largely located in upper New York State. The competent Gannett papers grew fat under the laissez-faire leadership of the late Frank Ernest Gannett, who permitted his editors wide latitude to run their shows as they saw fit, even down to disputing the boss...
...bidders. After inheriting the nucleus of the chain and $30 million from their father in 1930, the two Macys spread their enterprise over such well-fixed Westchester communities as Tarrytown, Mamaroneck, Mount Vernon and New Rochelle. The chain's 175,000 circulation is a useful addition to the Gannett fold. But the major beneficiaries are likely to be suburbanites in Westchester, where the caliber of the local journalism can only improve...
Miller's career in journalism embraces a separate success. In 1947, then the A.P.'s Washington bureau chief and assistant general manager, he left to join Gannett Co. Inc., rose steadily to become president of a company that operates 17 newspapers and five broadcasting stations in four states. As the A.P.'s new president, Miller succeeds Washington Star Editor Benjamin M. McKelway, 67, who is retiring because...
...record stands in concrete. The spanking new Charles G. Harrington School on Donnelly Field in East Cambridge has already opened its doors to pupils from the now abandoned Wellington and Gannett Schools and will soon be ready for the present population of Kelley School. Other new schools, like Peabody (near Radcliffe) and Morse (near Magazine Beach) have already been open for some time. The Committee has also launched several experimental programs, one, for example, an "in-service" training program for new and old teachers alike. Another major step has been the addition of aural-oral instruction in French...
...absentee owner is not a citizen, and therefore chains (or "groups" as some sensitive owners like to call them) are not good for newspapers, for local autonomy within a chain is always an illusion, as Lindstrom shows in his case study of the Hartford Times under Gannett chain ownership. But the chain is not the only source of weakness: neither the Boston Globe nor the Boston Herald is a chain paper; yet they have grown as fat and lazy as any chain or monopoly sheet...