Sat
Jul 20 2019
06:42 am
By: bizgrrl
Received emails from two different newspapers, both owned by Gannett/USA Today. Both newspapers claim to be a "perfect summer combination" with me.
How can that be? If one is a perfect combination, how can another be? I'm so confused.
Then, as if it cannot get any worse, Gannett is looking to merge with (be purchased by) GateHouse Media. "A move that would join the nation’s two largest newspaper groups by circulation" "Together, Gannett and GateHouse publish some 265 daily papers."
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