Word: gannett
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...Gannett Co. Inc., the year has opened with a shopping spree. In January the Rosslyn, Va.-based media giant, which publishes 124 newspapers, including the national daily USA Today, announced it was buying the respected Des Moines Register (circ. 240,000) and three sister papers in Tennessee and Iowa for $200 million from the Des Moines Register & Tribune Co. Last week Gannett purchased the nation's fourth-largestcirculation periodical, Family Weekly (the leaders: Parade, 23 million; the Reader's Digest, 18 million; TV Guide, 17 million...
...Gannett is undismayed by such declines. Said Chairman Allen Neuharth: "It is quite clear that weekend newspaper reading has had a stronger circulation pattern in the last several years." The chain already has forsworn one sure way of boosting the circulation of its newest addition. Although at least a score of Gannett newspapers now carry Parade, Neuharth said his company has no plans to force them to replace it with Family Weekly...
...cannot get too excited about President Reagan's off-the-record comment about bombing the Soviet Union [PRESS, Aug. 27]. What I am excited about is the fact that Reporter Ann Devroy and the Gannett News Service went ahead and printed the remark, knowing the seriousness of their action and knowing it was made in jest...
Blame it on the spectrum theory, which holds that columnists should be picked the way Noah filled his ark, with Irving specimens from every category. On the Gannett chain of 85 newspapers, "our policy is not to have a policy," John Quinn, its editorial director, says. But he urges his editors to pick columnists across a broad spectrum of views. Similarly, the Wall Street Journal, with the most rigidly polemical editorial page of any major paper, seeks to vary its Johnny-one-note tone by using some outside voices. Irving Kristol and Arthur Schlesinger are well-matched middleweights...
...Devroy of the Gannett News Service was in Santa Barbara with much of the rest of the White House press corps when word began to circulate that President Reagan had joked about bombing the Soviet Union while testing his microphone for a radio speech. Two TV networks, CBS and Cable News Network, had the quip on tape but felt obliged not to air it because of a longstanding agreement with other broadcasters that Reagan's warmup sessions were off the record. As a print reporter, however, Devroy was under no such constraint. After hunting down what Reagan had said...