Gannett Company History
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Gannett Company is today one of the largest newspaper groups in the
United States. Gannett now has facilities in 44 states, and the district
of Columbia, Guan, US virgin Island, Germany, Singapore and UK ( Hoover pg.
639 ). The newspaper company was founded by Frank Ernest Gannett, Who in
1906 be ....
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.... his competition. Gannett
acquired many of the newspaper in New York. His strategy was to purse the
profitable advertising and expandable circulation’s. His newspapers were
usually the only ones published in the city, that made it affordable and
profitable to run(Encyclopidia Britinica). In 1912 Gannett purchased the
Ithaca Journal, this was a big foot in the door for Gannett he was now in
the division of upper New York. This was also the first paper that Gannett
worked for. In ....
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