Word: gannett
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...news organization has embraced this ethic more enthusiastically than Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper chain and publisher of USA Today. Credited with one of the industry's best records for hiring and promoting minorities and women at its 88 daily newspapers, Gannett has mounted a campaign to combat what Charles Overby, the vice president for news, calls "the insidious stereotyping that tends to take place by white male managers...
Known as mainstreaming, the Gannett policy urges editors and reporters to include minorities in stories in which their race, sex or ethnic background are unrelated. For example, quoting a black professor in a story about Black History Month does not qualify, but citing a black economist in a story about the budget deficit does. "Mainstreaming," explains Overby, "is affirmative action in the news columns...
While Harvard police were speaking to Wilcox, they received a call from a woman at Gannett Hall on Mass. Ave., the prosecutor said. Responding to that call, police heard a similar story about a man rifling a person's wallet, he said...
...management team rather than pit themselves against it. Editors, they say, can no longer afford to stay aloof from such down-and-dirty concerns as advertising, circulation, production and revenues. "The role of the newspaper editor today has changed," says Robert Giles, vice president and executive editor of the Gannett-owned Detroit News and author of Newsroom Management: A Guide to Theory and Practice. "The trick is to be able to understand management so that you can fulfill your responsibilities in these new areas and continue to have the time and energy to devote to the newsroom...
...like AM radio. They weren't doing anything wrong either, but FM radio was better." Years of colossal audiences and soaring ad revenues, however, bred complacency. "The networks closed their eyes to reality," says Ralph Baruch, former president of Viacom International and now a senior fellow at the Gannett Center for Media Studies. "They didn't fully comprehend the extent of technological changes." Norman Lear, creator of All in the Family and now the owner of six independent TV stations, sees the networks' distress as retribution for their copycat programming. "If these guys were standing in a circle with razors...