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Three years ago, the Review installed a computer system and remodeled its spacious Gannett House offices at an estimated cost of $75,000. The improvements forced the publication to borrow heavily from it's alumni reserve fund, and after two years of running in the red, it finally expects to break even this year, says outgoing Treasurer David Hoffman...
Predictably, the staff is divided about the new look. Some describe the Post as an imitator of the Gannett Co.'s national daily, USA Today. In its emphasis on crime and catastrophe, the Post also resembles the British popular dailies on which the Toronto Sun was modeled. Complains one Post veteran: "It looks like a newspaper in a clown suit." Others share the view of a reporter who says, "It is like having somebody let fresh air into a stale room-we needed it, but some people find it a little cold." Advertisers too are hesitant. David Huskey, senior...
...Newhouse had amassed a nationwide communications empire that included not only newspapers but magazines, radio and television stations, printing companies and delivery services. His 31 daily newspapers had a total readership of more than 3 million, making them the third largest U.S. chain after Gannett and Knight-Ridder. But the value of those immense holdings remained a well-kept family secret that outsiders could only guess...
Many of the stories are credited simply: "Special to USA Today." According to spokesman Clark, "That means the story could have been rewritten from the AP or UPI wires-- with additional research--or it could mean that it was contributed from one of Gannett's 85 other papers. But they're re-researched, not just rewritten...
...researched" sounds neither too special nor too flattering to other Gannett reporters. Other aspects of the paper make their jobs seem even less special. The "Life" section reads like a collection of press releases-- "Hershey's has a new chocolate milk" (accompanied by color graphic); "Sophisticated Ladies opens tonight in Atlanta." Such stories are routinely introduced with expressions like. "Chocolate lovers are talking about..." or "Musical theater fans are wondering when...