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...capital of New York State, has two papers, both under the same ownership. Along with the death of the dailies and the spread of one-paper towns, the past few decades have seen the rise of absentee ownership of newspapers, as the older chains like Hearst, Scripps-Howard and Gannett are joined (and occasionally superseded) by shrewd newcomers like Samuel Newhouse...
Jean let them clack. She needed Roger Williams' publishing savvy while she gathered some of her own. And she shared his liberal journalistic approach. Old Guy would have been shocked at some of the changes gradually wrought in his empire. Not long after his death, the Gannett papers endorsed a Democrat-Edmund S. Muskie, running for Governor. Editing tightened: no longer was it considered news when a Portland merchant laid fresh bricks over the old store front. The papers' rock-bound horizons expanded; one Portland staffer went to India on a fellowship, another to France...
Such radical departures were regarded with jaundiced disapproval by General Manager Stubbs, a Guy Gannett conservative. The breach between Stubbs and Roger Williams widened into an open feud. "Stubbs didn't care a hoot about improving the paper,'' said Jean Gannett Williams, who did. Last fall, worn out by refereeing the quarrel, Jean collapsed, was hospitalized with pneumonia. A long convalescence gave her ample time to think...
Last week, with the assurance of five years' experience-the last two the most profitable in history-Jean took charge. Out went Publisher Williams and General Manager Stubbs. In as publisher and undisputed baroness of the Gannett chain: Jean Gannett Williams. 35. They are Jean's five papers...
...distant kin to the late Frank Gannett, who ran a bigger chain-currently 20 papers in four states. Guy's papers: the Portland Press-Herald, Express and Sunday Telegram, the Waterville Sentinel, and the Kennebec Journal in Augusta. Combined circulation...