Word: gannett
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Sitting behind a gleaming, curved desk in his New York City office, Allen Neuharth picks up the day's issue of USA Today, the terse, rainbow-colored newspaper that he created and nurtures. "We stole most of this from somebody else," says Neuharth, chairman of the Gannett Co., parent firm of USA Today. "Most of the content ideas, the packaging, color and graphics are the result of what television and the newsmagazines have been doing for a long time." Leaning back in his chair, Neuharth, 61, turns to the paper's full-page weather map. "This is a direct, absolute...
Neuharth's faith in USA Today can be seen in the redesign of Family Weekly, the Sunday newspaper supplement that Gannett bought from CBS Inc. in March for $42 million. At the time of the sale, Family Weekly had 362 newspaper clients and a combined circulation of more than 12 million. Renamed USA Weekend and scheduled to debut in September, the revamped magazine is a close cousin of the newspaper, complete with the same logo and flashy graphics. Many of Family Weekly's longtime subscribers, however, have complained that the new look amounts to free promotion for USA Today...
...their resources and pursue cases they have at least some expectation of winning, this one seemed a loser from the moment Hoy collared Bryant without Hurlbert's knowledge. Although Hurlbert filed charges two weeks later, experts say he needlessly rushed the investigation. In a preliminary hearing, Judge Frederick Gannett forewarned Hurlbert about the merits: he allowed the case to go forward but noted that the evidence barely met the legal standard...
...recent months, newspapers from Belo Corp.'s Dallas Morning News to the Gannett Co.'s Wilmington (Del.) News Journal have rolled out separate, free tabloids to appeal to that missing demographic. Some, like the Washington Post Co.'s Express, appear daily and are newsy, boiled-down versions of the broadsheet. Others are weekly and focus more on entertainment and lifestyle, like Gannett's CiN Weekly in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Knight-Ridder's StreetMiami, produced by the Miami Herald...
...easy. There is always something new to report. Life itself supplies a regular stream of events--roughly 3.2 billion an hour, according to scientists. With the advent of computers, it has become a simple matter to rank all events in order of their suitability as news, using the famous Gannett scale, developed by the well-known newspaper chain and involving such factors as the impact of an event on other events, the number of proper names that are difficult to spell (a negative factor) and the involvement of people from diverse backgrounds (a plus, obviously...