Gannett Company

Gannett Company, Inc. (nyse: GCI) is a publicly-traded media holding company headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, United States, near McLean. It is the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation. Its assets include the national newspaper USA Today and the weekly USA Weekend. Its largest non-national newspaper is The Arizona Republic in Phoenix, Arizona. Other significant newspapers include The Indianapolis Star, The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Tennessean in Nashville, Tennessee, The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, NY, The Des Moines Register, the Detroit Free Press and The News-Press in Fort Myers. Gannett also owns 23 television stations and holds substantial properties in digital media including PointRoll, BNQT Media Group, Ripple6 and ShopLocal.



History
Gannett Company, Inc. was founded in 1923 by Frank Gannett in Rochester, New York as an outgrowth of a newspaper business he had begun in Elmira, New York in 1906. Gannett, who was known as a conservative, gained fame and fortune by purchasing small independent newspapers and developing them into a large chain, a 20th century trend that helped the newspaper industry remain financially viable. By 1979, the chain had grown to 79 newspapers.

The company was headquartered in Rochester until 1986, when it relocated to Arlington County, Virginia. Its former headquarters building, the Gannett Building, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Gannett's oldest newspaper still in circulation is the Star-Gazette located in Elmira, New York. In 2001, the company moved to its current headquarters in Tysons Corner, a suburb of Washington, D.C.

On March 7, 2011, Gannett introduced its new logo for the company, which replaced the stylised "G" logo that was in use since the 1970s.

Gannett has come under fire in recent years for instituting large-scale layoffs and furloughs while rewarding executives with doubled wages and bonuses even as the company admits to faltering revenues.

Assets
Gannett's media properties include the following newspapers among the top 100(by circulation -- figures are approximate) in the United States, and the following television stations:

Print media

 * USA Today of McLean, Virginia (1,830,594, 2nd overall)
 * The Arizona Republic of Phoenix, Arizona (308,973, 14th)
 * Detroit Free Press of Detroit, Michigan (245,326, 20th)
 * The Indianapolis Star of Indianapolis, Indiana (182,933, 32nd)
 * The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky (159,275, 42nd)
 * The Cincinnati Enquirer of Cincinnati, Ohio (157,574, 43rd)
 * The Tennessean of Nashville, Tennessee (127,538, 61st)
 * Democrat and Chronicle of Rochester, New York (119,399, 65th)
 * Asbury Park Press of Neptune City, New Jersey (112,683, 68th)
 * The Des Moines Register of Des Moines, Iowa (109,095, 73rd)
 * The News Journal of Wilmington, Delaware (87,138, 89th)
 * The Journal News of White Plains, New York (79,525, 96th)

Broadcast media

 * WBIR-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee
 * WXIA-TV and WATL in Atlanta (Pacific and Southern Company, Inc.)
 * WUSA in Washington, D.C.
 * KPNX in Phoenix
 * WTSP in Tampa-St. Petersburg
 * KARE in Minneapolis-Saint Paul
 * KUSA-TV and KTVD in Denver
 * WKYC-TV in Cleveland
 * KXTV in Sacramento, California
 * KSDK in St. Louis
 * WZZM-TV in Grand Rapids, Michigan
 * WFMY-TV in Greensboro, North Carolina
 * WJXX and WTLV in Jacksonville, Florida
 * WGRZ-TV in Buffalo, New York
 * KTHV-TV in Little Rock, Arkansas
 * WLTX in Columbia, South Carolina
 * WMAZ-TV in Macon, Georgia
 * WCSH-TV in Portland, Maine
 * WLBZ-TV in Bangor, Maine

Gannett Digital Assets:
 * 4info
 * Captivate Network
 * CareerBuilder (50.8%)
 * Classified Ventures (20%)
 * HighSchoolSports.net
 * Metromix
 * MomsLikeMe
 * PointRoll
 * ShopLocal
 * Cars.COM

Directors
Gannett's chairman, president and chief executive officer is Craig A. Dubow. Other directors are: Senior executives are:
 * Robert Dickey, President, U.S Community Publishing Division
 * Robert T. Collins Senior Group President, Atlantic Coast Newspaper Group, and President and Publisher, Asbury Park Press
 * Philip R. Currie Senior Vice President, News, Newspaper Division
 * Paul Davidson - Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Newsquest plc
 * Michael G. Kane Senior Group President, Interstate Newspaper Group, and President and Publisher, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
 * Roxanne Horning Senior Vice President, Gannett Human Resources
 * Dave Lougee President, Gannett Broadcasting
 * Gracia Martore Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
 * Craig A. Moon President and Publisher, USA Today
 * Wendell Van Lare Senior Vice President, Gannett Labor Relations
 * Julius Streicher Head of Community Relations
 * W. Curtis Riddle Senior Group President, East Newspaper Group, and President and Publisher, The News Journal, Wilmington, Delaware
 * John A. (Jack) Williams President, Gannett Digital Ventures
 * Kurt Wimmer - Senior Vice President, General Counsel
 * Alvin Flanagan is a former president of the Gannett Company
 * Chris Saridakis Senior vice president and chief digital officer
 * Lawrence Beria Head of security
 * Carol Hudler Senior Group President, South Newspaper Group, and President and Publisher, "The Tennessean"