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...years since the late Frank E. Gannett purchased the Elmira (N.Y.) Star-Gazette, the chain has steered clear of big-city competition. Instead, Gannett has concentrated on small-and medium-sized towns with only one daily. The stereotypical Gannett paper has a circulation of 40,000, profit margins that dazzle Wall Street and a reputation for editorial lassitude. Defending his preference for local monopolies, Neuharth once said: "I don't dislike fighting, I just like winning...
...Gannett is beginning to grow its reputation for thinking small. It became a true press giant last summer when it merged with Combined Communications Corp., a Phoenix-based firm that owned the Cincinnati Enquirer (current circ. 190,000) and Oakland (Calif.) Tribune (current circ. 165,000), seven television stations, twelve radio stations and extensive outdoor-advertising interests. Among chains, Gannett is the longtime leader in number of papers, and last year passed the 55-paper Knight-Ridder chain in weekday circulation. Gannett's total is now 3,580,000 (vs. Knight-Ridder's 3,492,000), more than...
...American Newspaper Publishers Association. He has used his ANPA position to exhort fellow journalists to defend the beleaguered First Amendment and to hire more women and minorities. These are heartfelt concerns, but Neuharth's passionate pursuit of them is constantly put to use in his crusade to recast Gannett's image. The company trumpets its commitment to journalistic freedom and excellence in expensive and seemingly ubiquitous corporate advertisements, and a skillful p.r. staff lets no Gannett achievement go unheralded. The chain has even adopted a new motto: "A World of Different Newspapers" has become "A World of Different...
More than cosmetics is involved though. Says a reporter for the Gannett News Service of his employer: "I really get the feeling that they're trying to take their wealth and put it back into quality." Nowhere is this more evident than in Washington, where the G.N.S. bureau's budget has been raised from $250,000 in 1967 to $3.3 million today. Once content merely to keep Gannett papers posted on the good deeds of their local Congressmen, the Washington editorial staff now numbers 33, covers national and international news in some depth and undertakes a variety...
...Gannett's Pulitzer-winning investigation required a commitment of time and resources that would have been unthinkable only a few years ago. Three reporters, William F. Schmick, 38, John M. Hanchette, 37, and Carlton Sherwood, 32, were detached from regular duties for nine months to find out what had happened to money raised by the Pauline Fathers for a national shrine. The reporters traveled to 17 states and four foreign countries and ran up nearly $100,000 in expenses. They finally loosed an 18-part, 40,000-word series alleging that the order squandered a substantial portion...