USA Today publisher Dave Hunke is cutting 9 percent of his staff and shuffling the executive deck at the paper. “This gets us ready for our next quarter century,” Mr. Hunke told the Associated Press.
It’s still unclear which sections of the operation will be hardest hit, although it looks like 130 people will Read More
“Newspaper Advertising Decline is Slowing Markedly at Gannett,”announces The New York Times. The company saw a 7.9 percent drop in the first quarter, versus 8.5 percent drop in the same period last year: sweet!
And when we entered journalism, we believed our calculus days were behind us.
It’s another bad day in the newspaper business. Gannett, Co., Inc., publishers of USA Today and numerous other papers across the country, will reportedly let go of 1,000 employees according to a memo obtained by Gannett Blog.
Almost immediately following that revelation, MarketWatch reported that the company’s stock "soared on the news."
What baseball analogies best describe the players in this political season (which seems to be ending prematurely)?
Jay Gallagher of Gannett News Service solves the mystery!
“Eliot Spitzer is to New York politics what the New York Yankees are to major-league baseball: they’re both winning big, but they’re taking Read More
The Poughkeepsie Journal notes that the company that runs the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant (What is it they call it now? Indian Point Child Care Facility?) seems to think, or at least hope, that it has a friend in Eliot.
NOTE: The story, by Gannett’s Glenn Blain, first ran in the Journal Read More
As Hurricane Katrina gathered force on Sunday, Aug. 28, my editors shipped me off to Hattiesburg, Miss., where Gannett owns a small newspaper—the Hattiesburg American—that sat right in the storm’s track. Our team of reinforcements flew in on the company jet right before Katrina’s first feeder bands swept the town. It was a Gulfstream with Read More
As Hurricane Katrina gathered force on Sunday, Aug. 28, my editors shipped me off to Hattiesburg, Miss., where Gannett owns a small newspaper—the Hattiesburg American—that sat right in the storm’s track. Our team of reinforcements flew in on the company jet right before Katrina’s first feeder bands swept the town. It was a Gulfstream with Read More
