Gannett
| Gannett Logo | |
| Company type | Public (NYSE: GCI) |
|---|---|
| Industry | Media |
| Founded | 1906 |
| Headquarters | McLean, Virginia |
Key people | Craig A. Dubow; Chairman, President & CEO |
| Products | Newspapers |
| Revenue | US$8.03 billion (2006) |
Number of employees | 49,675 |
| Website | www.gannett.com |
Gannett Company, Inc. (NYSE: GCI) is a publicly-traded media holding company based in the United States. 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. Other large holdings include The Indianapolis Star, The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Nashville Tennessean, The Louisville Courier Journal, The Des Moines Register, The Honolulu Advertiser and The Detroit Free Press. Gannett Company, Inc. was founded in 1923 by Frank Gannett in Rochester, New York. The company was headquartered in Rochester, New York until 1986 when it relocated to Arlington, Virginia. Gannett's oldest newspaper still in circulation is The Star-Gazette located out of Elmira, New York. In 2001, it moved to its current headquarters in Tysons Corner, a suburb of Washington, D.C. The name of the company is pronounced "guh-NETT," with the emphasis on the second syllable.
Controversy and Criticism
Gannett has been widely criticized for its increasing trend towards using labor from Asian markets to produce advertisements.[1]
Assets
Gannett's media properties include the following newspapers among the top 50 (by circulation -- figures are approximate) in the United States, and the following television stations in the top 10 U.S. television markets:
- USA Today of McLean, Virginia (2,525,000)
- The Arizona Republic of Phoenix, Arizona (541,800)
- The Indianapolis Star of Indianapolis, Indiana (354,300)
- The Detroit Free Press of Detroit, Michigan (329,989)
- The Des Moines Register of Des Moines, Iowa (233,200)
- The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Kentucky (218,796)
- The Cincinnati Enquirer of Cincinnati, Ohio (206,300)
- WATL-TV in Atlanta, Georgia (Market #8)
- WXIA-TV in Atlanta, Georgia (Market #8)
- WUSA-TV in Washington, D.C. (Market #9)
- WTSP-TV in Tampa, Florida (Market #13)
Directors
Gannett's chairman, president and chief executive officer is Craig A. Dubow. Other directors are:
Senior executives are:
- Sue Clark-Johnson President, Newspaper 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
- Robert J. Dickey Senior Group President, Pacific Newspaper Group, and Chairman, Phoenix Newspapers
- Barbara A. Henry Senior Group President, Interstate Newspaper Group, and President and Publisher, The Indianapolis Star
- 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
- W. Curtis Riddle Senior Group President, East Newspaper Group, and President and Publisher, The News Journal, Wilmington, Del
- John A. (Jack) Williams President, Gannett Digital
- Kurt Wimmer - Senior Vice President, General Counsel
- Alvin Flanagan is a former president of the Gannett Company
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