Look over here….. hmmmm
Gannett Acquisitions to 2016:
Acquisitions
1906 - Elmira Gazette
1912 - The Ithaca Journal
1928 - Democrat and Chronicle
1959 - Courier Post
1969 - Pensacola News Journal[41]
1971 - Federated Publications
1971 - Honolulu Star-Bulletin
1972 - Pacific and Southern Company, Inc (Taken over by Combined Communications)
1976 - Tucson Citizen[42]
1977 - The Poughkeepsie Journal
1977 - Speidel Newspapers[43]
1978 - Combined Communications, owner of newspapers, television stations, radio stations and outdoor advertising[44]
1979 - The News Journal Company, from DuPont[45]
1979 - The Tennessean[46]
1982 - Mississippi Publishers, owner of The Clarion-Ledger[47]
1983 - WTCN-TV (now KARE) from Metromedia and WLVI from Field Communications
1985 - Des Moines Register and Tribune Co.[48]
1985 - Family Weekly, from CBS[49]
1986 - Courier-Journal and Louisville Times Company[50]
1986 - Evening News Association and the Detroit News[51]
1986 - Arkansas Gazette
1990 - Great Falls Tribune
1992 - The Honolulu Advertiser
1995 - Multimedia, broadcaster and publisher[52]
1997 - Army Times Publishing Company[53]
1997 - Asbury Park Press and Home News Tribune[54]
1998 - Daily Record
1999 - Newsquest, newspaper and trade publisher in the United Kingdom. Websites include the Glasgow-based job board s1jobs.com[55] and Exchange and Mart.
2000 - News Communications & Media, newspaper publisher in the United Kingdom[56]
2000 - Central Newspapers, six daily newspapers[57]
2001 - 21 newspapers from Thomson Newspapers[58]
2001 - Surrey & Sussex Publishing, Horley Publishing, and Dimbleby Newspaper Group; newspaper publishers in the United Kingdom
2003 - Clipper Magazine[59]
2003 - Three newspapers from Scottish Media Group
2005 - Detroit Free Press and Tallahassee Democrat from Knight Ridder[60]
2006 - WATL from Tribune Company[61] &KTVD From Newsweb Corporation.
2013 - Belo: 20 TV stations in 15 markets, plus 4 regional cable news networks
2014 - 6 TV stations in Texas from London Broadcasting Co.[62]
2015 - Acquired remaining (56.36%) ownership in Texas-New Mexico Newspapers Partnerships, acquiring control of eleven papers in three states[63]
2015 - Romanes Media Group, UK regional publisher
2015 - Company renamed to Tegna, spin-off of print assets to new company retaining Gannett name
2016 - Journal Media Group
2016 - ReachLocal
2016 - North Jersey Media Group
2016 - Golfweek
But wait.. there's more…
Significant digital investments
Digg
Digg.com
Digg is a news aggregator with a curated front page, aiming to select stories specifically for the Internet audience such as science, trending political issues, and viral Internet issues. It was launched in its current form on July 31, 2012, with support for sharing content to other social platforms such as Twitter and Facebook.
Founders:
Jay Adelson (born Jay Steven Adelson, September 7, 1970) is an American Internet entrepreneur.[1] In 2014 Jay co-founded Center Electric with Andy Smith.[2] In 2013 he founded Opsmatic, a technology company that improves productivity on operations teams.[3] In 2015 Opsmatic was bought by New Relic.[4] Adelson's Internet career includes Netcom, DEC's Palo Alto Internet Exchange, co-founder of Equinix, Revision3 and Digg, and CEO of SimpleGeo, Inc.[5][6] In 2008, Adelson was named a member of Time Magazine's Top 100 Most Influential People in the World [7] and was listed as a finalist on the same list in 2009.[8]
Robert Kevin Rose (born February 21, 1977) is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Revision3, Digg, Pownce, and Milk. He also served as production assistant and co-host at TechTV's The Screen Savers. From 2012 to 2015, he was a venture partner at GV.[2] He lives in New York City.[3]
oh yes.. Agreed. I remember even in the 80's - 90's when I lived in Atlanta how they were gobbling up the media outlets there. Fast and Furious
One of the greatest examples I've seen of the talking points is that video from this last Christmas where they had collected like 30 different anchors leading with the story about buying themselves Christmas presents. was hilarious… but NOT
>https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM8L7bdwVaA
yes… those are it. showed it to my sister… she was not amused. Sad really. How many have become sheep. we only see it (once) in our own small world but it's everywhere. And we didn't even know it
https:// www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=5565302&privcapId=3157486
Background
Ms. Sidney R. Dillard serves as Partner and Head of Corporate Investment Banking Division at Loop Capital Markets, LLC. Ms. Dillard is responsible for relationship management and the team's business development efforts with corporations across all areas of the firm, including bond underwriting, initial public offerings, private institutional capital raising and mergers and acquisition advisory. She served as a Senior Vice President and Division Manager at The Northern Trust Company, responsible for commercial banking, treasury management, retirement plan custody and investment services for large corporations. She also sits on various boards including the Girls Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana, The Academy of Sciences and its Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, The First Tee of Greater Chicago and National Association of Securities Professionals (NASP). Ms. Dillard serves as Vice Chairman at Metropolitan Planning Council. She serves as Chair of Muntu Dance Theatre of Chicago and serves on the Advisory Board of buildOn Midwest and The Fund for Community Redevelopment and Revitalization. Ms. Dillard is a Leadership Greater Chicago Fellow. She has over 30 years of experience. Ms. Dillard holds Series 24, 7, 63 and 79 licenses. She received a Masters of Management in Finance, Marketing and Management from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Stanford University.
how easy or impossible is it to create a meme with the Christmas video talking point embedded into it? just a thought? would be a great example.
oh yes… Google. Google is the devil.
Well… way to connect the dots! Look at all the connections …
well.. could we safely say Gannett might actually be CIA HQ? (clarification -for those who are clowns) it's starting to look like a possibility that Gannett has everything to do with anything related to the control of the sheep