Gannett Co. is leasing a 23,000 square foot space at 1440 Broadway. The media holding company, which owns USA Today as well as several other daily newspapers and television stations across the country, will be using the space for a new online division a source said.
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The New York Times has joined Gannet, USA Today and The Washington Post to invest $12 million in Ongo, a Silicon Valley startup that helps aggregate news from multiple publishers.
Ongo was founded by eBay veteran Alex Kazim, who has also held roles as President of Skype and VP Marketing at PayPal.
Allen Neuharth, a former Gannett executive who founded USA Today almost 30 years ago, wrote to the current paper's publisher David Hunke to say that his decision to sell an advertisement to Jeep that covered the entire frontpage in July was a an all-time lowpoint in USA Today history. The New York Times published Read More
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 be Read More
- "If [Axl] Rose ever had a moment's doubt or repentance over what Chinese Democracy has cost him in time (13 years), money (14 studios are listed in the credits) and body count — including the exit of every other founding member of the band — he left no room for it in these 14 Read More
Newt Gingrich walked into the USA Today/Gannett pavilion a little bit ago to talk to reporters as part of the paper's "Newsmakers" program. What he's saying in there-- and whether he's saying it on or off the record-- we don't know, because the event is distinctly not open to the public. Apparently, when Jimmy Carter Read More
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."
Mayor Doug Palmer of Trenton, a loyal Hillary Clinton supporter, doesn’t think much of the dust-up over Clinton's comments about how exit polls in Indiana and North Carolina showed Barack Obama's "support among working, hardworking Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting Read More
"Respected, adored and occasionally feared by TV execs for his sharp wit and 'knowledge of where every single body is buried,' Johnson will join his wife Tory Johnson, a contributor to Good Morning America Read More
It's unfortunate that we have to take these steps, particularly when our newspaper circulation is growing and USATODAY.com has been named the top news website in the country by the Online News Read More
In the buildup to Al Gore's big appearance before Congress tomorrow to testify on global warming, Observer contributor Rebecca Sinderbrand writes in with a interesting catch: Checking the homepage of Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee for the scheduling details of Gore's testimony, she noticed that all the "related items" links accompanying that information Read More
"Sometimes people accuse us of jumping in too quickly with our horse race polls asking Americans whom they prefer for their party's nomination in 2008. But Read More
As Connecticut Democrats went to their polling places to choose a Senate nominee, waves of rhetorical hysteria burst forth from the mouths of excitable conservatives. At stake in the primary was not only the fate of a single politician, they cried, but the very “soul of the Democratic Party” and perhaps even the fate of Read More
