Headquarters of USA Today and parent company Gannett Company in Tysons Corner, Virginia
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Traded as | : GCI S&P 600 Component |
Industry | Print media |
Successor | Tegna (Broadcasting) |
Founded | 1906 |
Founder | Frank Gannett |
Headquarters |
Tysons Corner, Virginia, U.S. (McLean mailing address) |
Key people
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John Jeffry Louis III (Chairman) Robert Dickey (President and CEO) |
Products | Newspapers |
Revenue | US$ 3.05 billion (2016) |
US$ 79.088 million (2016) | |
US$ 52.710 million (2016) | |
Total assets | US$ 2.844 billion (2016) |
Total equity | US$ 856.761 million (2016) |
Number of employees
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24,200 (2016) |
Divisions | Publishing ReachLocal |
Subsidiaries | Newsquest |
Website | gannett.com |
Gannett Company, Inc. is a publicly traded American media holding company headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, near McLean in Greater Washington DC. It is the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation.
Its assets include the national newspaper USA Today and the erstwhile 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, New York, The Des Moines Register, the Detroit Free Press, The News-Press in Fort Myers, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and the Great Falls Tribune.
In 2015, Gannett Co. Inc. spun off its publishing business into a separate publicly traded entity, while retaining the internet media divisions. Immediately following the spin off, the former parent Company (Gannett Co. Inc.) renamed itself Tegna. The spun off publishing business renamed itself "Gannett".