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Both Giles's admirers and detractors agree that journalism as a whole has become more corporate in the last half century, a change they attribute in no small part to Gannett, the chain that now controls 93 newspapers across the United States with a combined daily circulation of 7 million readers...
Some say the careers of people like Giles, who moved from Ohio to Rochester to Detroit, are typical of the new era of journalism in which editors, particularly at Gannett, are less attached to the communities they serve...
...pressures of making a profit and working for a chain instead of for an independent institution shape the way that Gannett editors operate in the newsroom, some...
...Gannett has a very definite outlook on how a newsroom runs," says Gary Jacobsen, editor and publisher of the Arlington Morning News in Arlington, Texas, who has worked for the company on and off over the years...
Giles was more than a follower of the Gannett practice. He was also a leader, authoring a book entitled Newsroom Management: A Guide to Theory and Practice, and developing a system for periodic evaluations of employee performance in a number of categories, ranging from spelling accuracy to acceptance of criticism of their work to ability to produce under pressure...