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...cover story" of four minutes or so, the pieces will be brief and numerous (about 35 a half-hour). This broadcast spin-off of "McPaper" -- McRather, perhaps? -- has impressive parentage: it comes from GTG Entertainment, the new company headed by ex-NBC Chairman Grant Tinker (in partnership with Gannett, USA Today's publisher), and is being produced by Steve Friedman, the respected former executive producer of NBC's Today show...
...nation's bitterest newspaper wars. All-out efforts by the afternoon News and the morning Free Press to beat each other into submission cost millions and kept newsstand prices and advertising rates at rock bottom. Then two years ago both papers agreed to an odd sort of truce. Gannett Co., owner of the News, and Knight-Ridder Inc., owner of the Free Press, decided to take advantage of a federal law designed to preserve the editorial voice of a dying newspaper by allowing it to combine its business operations with a healthy competitor. They thus joined forces in applying...
...while Chapman is pleading near bankruptcy, one of his own memos (to Gannett Chairman Al Neuharth) included in Needelman's report makes a strong case that the Free Press should receive an equal share of the J.O.A.'s future earnings. "The Detroit Free Press is a well managed newspaper with a loyal readership base and a proven and continuing capacity to expand its reach," Chapman wrote, before listing several favorable statistics not usually associated with failing newspapers...
...woman, whose name has not been released, was treated and released from Cornell's Gannett Health Center. "She has been receiving counseling and medical assistance," said university spokesman David Stewart...
...features and helpful hints, USA Today enjoys a circulation of 1.5 million (including 15% sold at a discount to hotels and airlines), making it the country's second largest daily (No. 1: the Wall Street Journal, with 2 million).After suffering more than $450 million in operating losses, the Gannett Co. announced that USA Today turned a $1 million profit last May. The red ink reappeared during the summer, but the wealthy media conglomerate is still declaring victory. "USA Today is established to the point where even we cannot screw it up," says Allen Neuharth, Gannett chairman...