Word: gannett
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Last year, after Hederman left, the family sold the Clarion-Ledger and its evening sister paper, the Jackson Daily News (circ. 40,000), to the Gannett Co. the nation's biggest (87 dailies) newspaper chain. But Hederman's goal of improvement survived. The paper opened bureaus in three Mississippi cities and began to send reporters to cover stories throughout the South. Says Managing Editor Rober Gordon: "We are a good newspaper trying to get better...
Four months in, Gannett's USA Today is moving on schedule...
...land of endless freeways and fast everything. Thus it might seem fertile territory for a newspaper that is billed by its editor as "a quick read" and that seeks an audience among frequent travelers and uprooted careerists who still care about news from home. Last week the Gannett Co.'s USA Today, the nation's first general-interest national daily, launched itself in sunny Southern California, in the midst of what its editors hoped was a nonsymbolic 1.2-in. rainstorm. The paper's $500,000-plus promotional campaign began with a party for nearly 1,000 guests...
...grand sweep into Los Angeles followed similarly ballyhooed arrivals into Portland, Ore., Denver, Minneapolis and five other regional markets. By April, USA Today will have entered five additional metropolitan areas, including Chicago, Miami and New York. Though Gannett officials are closely guarding the circulation results in individual markets, they claim to have a total of more than 400,000 street-sold copies a day. That would make the paper, whose first issue appeared in Washington on Sept. 15, at least the nation's 18th largest...
Many of the national pundits relied on regional newspaper and TV-station polls, which made some notable goofs. Surveys by the New York Daily News, Long Island's Newsday and a subsidiary of the Gannett News Service all gave Democratic Gubernatorial Nominee Mario Cuomo a final-week lead ranging from 9% to 13%; he won by 3%. The Illinois Governor's race brought on the worst polling failures: the Chicago Tribune found Republican Thompson ahead, 53% to 34%, and the Chicago Sun-Times had the race barely closer...