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Gannett (GCI) is in the Media Industry
- Revenue
- Dec 30 2007
- $7.4B
- Profit
- Dec 30 2007
- $1.0B
- Market Cap
- Jul 17 2008
- $1.7M
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What Do You Buy When You Buy a Newspaper Company?
Jeff Jarvis submits: Alan Mutter runs the numbers to see which newspaper companies could be taken private and Mark Potts fears they could be taken private by private-equity blood/cash-suckers. A few examples: Mutter says the Times Company NYT would need to borrow $2 billion to go private, Gannett GCI...
Publishing in Peril: Rivals Think About Collaborating
Julia Boorstin submits: There's yet more news of trouble in the publishing business. Yesterday morning Gannett GCI reported a 36 percent drop in second-quarter earnings on 10 percent lower ad revenues at its newspapers including USA Today. The company is also recording a pre-tax charge of between $2.6 and...
Few Print Readers Use Local Newspaper Websites
Research Recap submits: Websites are touted as the “great online hope” of print publications, but a recent survey of local newspaper readers shows that this is not the case - at least not yet. According to a survey by the Readership Institute at NorthWestern University, newspaper web...
Whistling 'Taps' For Media Stocks
Jeff Jarvis submits: Alan Mutter compiles the bad news for news and media stocks. What’s worse than bad news? Really bad news? The shares of five newspaper publishers plunged to new lows in early trading today, including the shares of GateHouse Media, which fell to $1 per share, threatening...
Some Bargain Stocks to Consider Buying
Dobromir Stoyanov submits: Ever since the broad market indexes entered into bear market territory, I have been checking the dividend champions list for bargains. I came up with a list, using the follwoing screen criteria:1) Company has consistently increased dividends for more than 25 consecutive years2) The P/E ratio is...
Using the Magic Formula With Dividend Stocks
Steve Alexander submits: One advantage to Joel Greenblatt's Magic Formula strategy is its applicability to many other popular value based investing strategies. In this article, I'll show how an investor focused on building income through dividends can apply the MFI screen to find potentially attractive investments. First, let's...
AOL signs online ad deal with newspaper publisher Gannett
AOL has signed a deal to serve ads on all the digital properties of US newspaper publisher Gannett. Through the deal, ADTECH, a division of AOL's online ad business Platform A, will manage and serve ads on Gannett's sites. This includes the website for USA Today, all of its...
Frankly, Candidly, Truthfully: What Newspapers CEO Would Say About 2Q
Ken Doctor submits: It's time for second-quarter newspaper earnings reports, with Gannett GCI leading off Wednesday, with the long tale of woe to follow. Given the many newspaper staff cutbacks, which I thought might include the investor relations people, I've put together a few boilerplate remarks that I hope...
Dividend Yields Soar
Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: After yesterday's severe declines in the Financial sector, the indicated dividend yields on many of these companies have become laughable. Bank of America yielding 11.6%! Wachovia yielding 10.5%! Many of these dividends are going to have to be cut for these companies to...
Rethinking Newspapers vs. the Internet
Jeff Jarvis submits: When I saw Edward Roussel, head of digital for the Telegraph, on my last trip to London, he said over breakfast that he’d been thinking about my book title’s question — What Would Google Do? — in relation to newspapers and he came up with a...
10 Top Dividend Stocks of the S&P 500
I run my fundamental stock screener, searching for stocks with the highest dividend yield. The report lists only companies included in the S&P 500 index. Not surprisingly, aside from one GM GM, there are only financials and banks in the top ten. Financials had the highest yield, compared to other...
Newspapers 'Rightsizing'? More Like Frightsizing
Ken Doctor submits: The news is out: Newspaper companies can no longer afford reporters and editors. Yesterday's L.A. Times announcement is the latest to catch a news cycle of public attention. As well it should. A 17% cut -- 150 newsroom jobs -- is an unnatural disaster. It's the...
The Latest Nail In Newspapers' Coffin: Outsourcing
Julia Boorstin submits: The newspaper business has been struggling to reinvent itself to compete. Now the Orange County Register is trying a new way to cut costs: outsourcing to India. Mindworks Global Media will copy edit some of the papers' stories for a one-month trial starting next week. And...
Yahoo and the Newspaper Publishers: Playing with Fire
Ken Doctor submits: As Yahoo YHOO burns, the newspaper industry watches, hoping it won't get singed. The Google/Yahoo search ad agreement has drawn lots of comments over the past couple of weeks, but its impact on newspaper consortium members has gotten little attention. The deal itself, if implemented,...
Newspapers Ads and Circulation Continue to Decline
Julia Boorstin submits: Newspapers are breaking records -- and it's not a good thing. A double-digit drop in newspaper ad revenue, the third consecutive year of declines, and record margin contraction makes this the industry's worst year ever. The newspaper industry's ad revenue is down 12 percent this year,...
Why Newspapers Must Embrace RSS
Felix Salmon submits: Last week, Research Recap featured a Forrester study entitled "The Fragmentation of Yesterday's Newspaper". A mention of RSS feeds piqued my interest, and Forrester was kind enough to send me a copy today. The conclusions of the report are, I...
How Low Will Gannett Go?
Steve Alexander submits: The stock price of newspaper giant Gannett GCI has resembled a double black diamond ski slope over the past year. Now, this well known publisher of USA Today and many regional daily newspapers is a very highly ranked Magic Formula stock with a dirt cheap P/E ratio...
Gannett's Cozy Cozi Investment
Michael Arrington submits: Cozi, an intriguing Seattle based startup that’s most easily described as a social network for a family unit, is announcing an investment and business deal with newspaper conglomerate Gannett Co. GCI this morning. The size of the investment is not being disclosed (we believe it is...
The 20 Highest of the High-Yield Dividend Aristocrats
Dobromir Stoyanov submits: In my previous post I highlighted a sample list of the 20 highest yielding dividend aristocrats. Being fascinated with companies which have consistently increased their dividends for over 25 years, I wanted to examine a similar list, using the High-Yield Dividend Aristocrats this time. You could open...
McClatchy's Guantanamo Series: Timely Point Amid Cutbacks
Ken Doctor submits: There are two kinds of newspaper stories these days. One kind is the old-fashioned one that tell us something we don't know. The others --- now feeding on themselves in near-frenzy -- tell us about the unabated decline of the newspaper trade itself. Sometimes,...
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- Incorporated: 1923
- CEO: Mr. Craig A. Dubow
Gannett is a news and information company. In the U.S., Co. published 85 daily newspapers and nearly 900 non-daily publications as of Dec 31 2007. Co. also operates Web sites providing news, information and advertising that is customized for the market served and integrated with its publishing operations. Co.'s newspaper publishing operations in the U.K., operating as Newsquest, included locally integrated Web sites, classified business Web sites, 17 paid-for daily newspapers, and almost 300 non-daily publications as of Dec 31 2007. In broadcasting, Co. operated 23 television stations in the U.S. with a market reach of more than 20.0 million households as of Dec 31 2007.
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Board of Directors
Mr. Craig A. Dubow
Chairman
Ms. Donna E. Shalala
Mr. Neal Shapiro
Ms. Marjorie Magner
Mr. Duncan M. McFarland
Ms. Karen Hastie Williams
Mr. Arthur H. Harper
Mr. John Jeffry Louis
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7950 Jones Branch Drive
McLean, VA
703 854-6000
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