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Gannett Company, Inc. is a publicly traded media holding company headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia, near McLean in Greater Washington DC.〔"(Contact Us )." Gannett Company. Retrieved on January 10, 2011. "7950 Jones Branch Drive McLean, VA 22107-0150."〕〔"(Tysons Corner CDP, Virginia )." ''United States Census Bureau''. Retrieved on May 7, 2009.〕 It is the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation. Its assets include the national newspaper ''USA Today'' and the 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, NY, ''The Des Moines Register'', the ''Detroit Free Press'' and ''The News-Press'' in Fort Myers. In 2015, Gannett spun off its broadcast and internet media divisions into an independent publicly-traded company called TEGNA. ==History== Gannett Company, Inc. was formed in 1923 by Frank Gannett in Rochester, New York as an outgrowth of a newspaper business he had begun in Elmira, New York in 1906. Gannett, who was known as a conservative, gained fame and fortune by purchasing small independent newspapers and developing them into a large chain, a 20th-century trend that helped the newspaper industry remain financially viable. By 1979, the chain had grown to 79 newspapers.〔Neiva, Elizabeth M. (Chain Building: The Consolidation of the American Newspaper Industry, 1955-80 ), in ''Business and Economic History'', Vol. 24, no. 1 (Fall 1995)〕 In 1979, Gannett acquired Combined Communications Corp., operator of 17 television stations, as well as an outdoor advertising division, for $370 million. The outdoor advertising became known as Gannett Outdoor, before being acquired by Outdoor Systems (previously a division of 3M), before the company was sold to Infinity Broadcasting, which later became part of Viacom, and was part of CBS Corporation, until 2014 when CBS Outdoor went independent and became Outfront Media. The company was headquartered in Rochester until 1986, when it moved to Arlington County, Virginia. Its former headquarters building, the Gannett Building, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Gannett's oldest newspaper still in circulation is the ''Leaf-Chronicle'' located in Clarksville, Tennessee. In 2001, the company moved to its current headquarters in Tysons Corner, a suburb of Washington, D.C. Beginning in 2005 at the Fort Myers ''News-Press'', Gannett pioneered the mojo concept of ''mo''bile multimedia ''jo''urnalists, reporters who were initially untethered from conventional newsrooms and drove around their communities filing hyperlocal news via Wi-Fi in various formats including text for print publication, still photos for print and online publication, and audio and video for the ''News-Press'' website. The practice has spread throughout the chain. On March 7, 2011, Gannett replaced the stylized "G" logo in use since the 1970s (notably used on its TV stations as a corporate/local ID with different animations), and adopted a new company tagline: "It's all within reach."〔Lieberman, David (March 4, 2011). ("Gannett launches corporate branding campaign" ). ''USA Today''.〕 In 2010, Gannett increased executive salaries and bonuses; for example, Bob Dickey, Gannett's U.S. newspapers division president, was paid $3.4 million in 2010, up from $1.9 million the previous year. The next year, the company laid off 700 U.S. employees to cut costs. In the memo announcing the layoffs, Dickey wrote, "While we have sought many ways to reduce costs, I regret to tell you that we will not be able to avoid layoffs."〔Bullard, Gabe (June 21, 2011). ("Gannett Executive Bonuses Criticized Amid Layoffs" ). Louisville, KY: WFPL.〕 In February 2012, Gannett announced that it would implement a paywall system across all of its daily newspaper websites, with non-subscriber access will be limited to between five and 15 articles per month, varying by newspaper. The ''USA Today'' website became the only one to allow unrestricted access.〔Bercovici, Jeff (February 22, 2012). ("Gannett Building Paywalls Around All Its Papers Except USA Today" ). ''Forbes''.〕 On March 24, 2012, the company announced that it would discipline 25 employees in Wisconsin who had signed the petition to recall Governor Scott Walker, stating that this open public participation in a political process was a violation of the company's code of journalistic ethics and that their primary responsibility as journalists was to maintain credibility and public trust in themselves and the organization. On August 21, 2012, Gannett acquired Blinq Media. Around the first week of October 2012, Gannett entered a dispute against Dish Network regarding compensation fees and Dish's AutoHop commercial-skip feature on its Hopper digital video recorders. Gannett ordered that Dish discontinue AutoHop on the account that it is affecting advertising revenues for Gannett's television station. Gannett threatened to pull all of its stations should the skirmish continue beyond October 7 and Dish and Gannett fail to reach an agreement. 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