Word: neuharth
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...casino gambling. One small exception: participating papers neglected to reveal their financial stake until forced to by last month's disclosure of campaign spending. Still, the Gannett Co.'s four Florida dailies declined to contribute, despite a personal appeal from Askew to chain President Allen Neuharth. The Miami News last week printed a letter from 47 employees objecting to the paper's contribution. "Nobody is censoring our copy," says Miami Herald Reporter Pat Riordan, "but this whole thing raises the appearance of a conflict of interest...
...century. Arizona Congressman Mo Udall, whose home-town paper in Tucson was sold to a chain last year, wants the Government to give local owners special tax breaks and begin a three-year study of the effects of concentrated ownership. This seems a very bad idea to Allen Neuharth, the head of the Gannett chain, which bought the Tucson paper and owns more dailies (73 in 28 states) than anyone else. Udall's proposal has not got far yet. Perhaps concentrated control over newspapers is not the dramatically fearsome thing it once was, before television and radio news coverage...
...indifference at headquarters. In the 1976 election, one of Knight-Ridder's Southern papers endorsed Gerald Ford instead of Southerner Jimmy Carter, while the Detroit Free Press in Ford's home state chose Carter. On the Gannett papers-"without any guidance at all from corporate headquarters," says Neuharth-endorsements went about 60% Ford, 40% Carter. The well-managed, publicly owned Gannett papers have been described not too unfairly by a critic as "one of the largest, most profitable and least influential journalistic enterprises in the country." Gannett papers are like a good chain drugstore-well lit, well stocked...
...Rochester Times-Union and the Democrat and Chronicle, both owned by the Gannett Company, reporters, copy editors and photographers started taking turns this year sitting in as policy-making members of the editorial board. Says Executive Vice President Al Neuharth: "We believe control of policy should be in the bosses' hands because that's where the ultimate responsibility lies. But we also feel journalists at every level should be encouraged to contribute their best talents and ideas...