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August 6, 2019

GateHouse Media Acquires Gannett, Creating Newspaper Behemoth
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In media news, two of the country's largest newspaper publishers are
merging. Gate House Media acquired Gannett, which owns USA Today, among
other papers, for $1.4 billion. The new company will own over 250 daily
newspapers and hundreds of other weekly and community publications. The
company, which will retain the name Gannett, will own over one-sixth of
all daily newspapers in the United States. Critics warn the merger could
result in newsroom layoffs and that local reporting may be sacrificed in
favor of stories produced remotely and republished across many of the
companies' newspapers.


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