The split was structured so that Tegna is the legal successor of the old Gannett Company, while the new Gannett Company is a spin-off.
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17 Facts About Gannett Company
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In November 2019, GateHouse Media merged with Gannett Company, creating the largest newspaper publisher in the United States, which adopted the Gannett Company name.
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Gannett Company, Inc, was formed in 1923 by Frank Gannett in Rochester, New York, as an outgrowth of the Elmira Gazette, a newspaper business he had begun in Elmira, New York, in 1906.
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Gannett Company, 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.
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Gannett Company was headquartered in Rochester until 1986, when it moved to Arlington County, Virginia.
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In 2010, Gannett increased executive salaries and bonuses; for example, Bob Dickey, Gannett's U S newspapers division president, was paid $3.
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In February 2012, Gannett Company announced that it would implement a paywall system across all of its daily newspaper websites, with non-subscriber access limited to between five and fifteen articles per month, varying by newspaper.
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Around the first week of October 2012, Gannett Company entered a dispute against Dish Network regarding compensation fees and Dish's AutoHop commercial-skip feature on its Hopper digital video recorders.
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Gannett Company ordered that Dish discontinue AutoHop on the account that it is affecting advertising revenues for Gannett Company's television station.
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Scripps Gannett Company acquiring the television and radio properties owned by the former's technical predecessor Journal Communications and spinning out their respective publishing operations into Journal Media Group.
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Gannett Company announced it would not be delaying print deadlines for the 2018 midterm elections in the United States, meaning that next-day newspapers would no longer contain the election's results, instead directing readers to the Internet.
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In late 2018 as Gannett Company was seeking partners for a merger, fending off a hostile takeover and its stock fell, this former paperboy emailed investigative reporters and Gannett Company management asking them to investigate his claims.
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In March 2020, Gannett Company announced that due to COVID-19, it will be forced to make a series of cuts and furloughs.
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At the time of this announcement, Gannett Company said that they would not be filling 400 open positions.
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Gannett Company has an eight-member board of directors and 11 senior executives.
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Gannett Company was succeeded by Gracia Martore, Gannett's Chief operating officer, a 26-year company veteran.
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