Mike Reed Sets Goals for New Gannett

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Is Gannett News Service still a thing? Apologies, haven't paid much attention to our local site in the last 7-8 years or so.

My initial thought was that with the deadlines moved up so drastically at most Gannett shops, the lack of AP stuff won't be felt tremendously.

 

[Readallover]

So how much money is GCI saving annually by dropping the AP? Tens of millions??

 

[jla74m]

There are going to be a lot thinner newspapers across the country. I guess that is a cost-cutting measure, too!

 

[Readallover]

Neither company will reveal how much Gannett pays the AP. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...-using-ap-content-for-first-time-in-a-century

 

[DanOregon]

Is Gannett still a thing in five years? They've cannibalized the the thing to a point where you couldn't even sell off local operations because there is so little left of local operations - no printing presses, no copy desk, no distribution centers - pretty much just a name.

 

[MileHigh]

But Gannett is still going to pay for the stylebook!

 

[jr/shotglass]

There are going to be a lot thinner newspapers across the country. I guess that is a cost-cutting measure, too!

Check your local newsstand. They were thin already.

 

[goalmouth]

McClatchy also cutting back on AP.

 

[HanSenSE]

Haven't seen a copy in ages, but does USA Today still do agate?

 

[MisterCreosote]

Is Gannett News Service still a thing?

No. It disbanded 15 years ago under Tara Connell, who turned its bones into "ContentOne." I'm still not sure what that was supposed to be.

GNS's downtown bureau kept operating for a while after that, but I'm not sure how long that lasted.

 

[playthrough]

But Gannett is still going to pay for the stylebook!

So strange. If you think you can operate some kind of nationwide in-house wire service, how about your own stylebook?

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Given that Gannett has papers with literally zero staffers what are they going to print on the pages? Content from other papers?

My old paper is like that. They run regional copy from other Gannett papers and AP. But since they don't have a single local employee, there's nothing about the city board meetings or the two bank robberies in town. And they care so little about the paper that they often wedge the one page of classified ads on 4 or 5A.