#Al Neuharth

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Keep little things little, ignore them and move on, so that you can focus on what really matters. Time and energy are too precious to waste on things that do not really matter, and you are also too precious.

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ABC NEWS ANNOUNCES JACLYN LEE AND MELISSA ADAN AS MULTI-PLATFORM REPORTERS 

Wendy Fisher, ABC News senior vice president of Newsgathering, sent the following note to the news division announcing that Jaclyn Lee and Melissa Adan are joining ABC News as multi-platform reporters.  

Pictured from left: Jaclyn Lee, Melissa Adan 

I am excited to share that two new multi-platform reporters are joining our team this week. Jaclyn Lee begins today in New York, and Melissa Adan starts later this week and will be based in Los Angeles.   

Jaclyn Lee joins us from our very own WPVI-TV in Philadelphia, where she served as an anchor/reporter since 2020. During her tenure, she spent time in the field, reporting on COVID-19, civil unrest, the 2020 presidential election and the unprecedented 2021 winter storm in Houston. Additionally, in response to the increase in anti-Asian American hate crimes nationwide, Jaclyn pitched and carried out an anti-Asian hate crime PSA that aired on OTV stations across the country. 

Prior to WPVI, Jaclyn worked as a general assignment reporter and anchor at WVEC-TV, the ABC affiliate in Norfolk, Virginia. There she sharpened her investigative skills, reporting from the Virginia State Capitol on the blackface scandal and sexual assault allegations facing top state politicians. Jaclyn also spearheaded investigations into crucial shortages in the U.S. Navy, which caused officials to take action. Jaclyn’s work has also taken her around the globe. She reported on protestors against Machu Picchu tourism in Peru, the effort to preserve minority cultures in China, and the large number of sea lions dying in Chile, and she researched the aftermath of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Before relocating to Virginia, Jaclyn worked in Raleigh, North Carolina. She holds a degree in broadcast journalism from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. 

Melissa Adan comes to ABC from NBC 7 and Telemundo 20 in San Diego, where she worked as a general assignment news reporter and anchor since 2018. She is bilingual in English and Spanish, and her reporting has taken her worldwide. She recently traveled to Vatican City to cover Pope Francis’ appointment of new cardinals, has reported from Mexico on the immigration crisis at the border in Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez, and covered the 2018 migrant caravan in Tijuana. Her reporting in Australia on climate change in the aftermath of destructive wildfires won her a regional Emmy. She received the Al Neuharth Investigative Journalism Award from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists for her report on sex abuse and money mismanagement at migrant youth shelters in San Diego. 

Previously, Melissa was a reporter/multimedia journalist at NBC 6 in South Florida. She covered many breaking news events, such as the mass shooting at the Fort Lauderdale airport, Hurricane Irma and the death of José Fernández, star pitcher for the Marlins. Melissa is a Miami, Florida native and a first-generation Cuban American. She has a master’s degree in criminal justice from Florida International University, a B.S. from Boston University's College of Communication and an A.A. from Miami Dade College, The Honors College. 

Both Melissa and Jaclyn are skilled investigative reporters and great additions to our talented teams on both coasts. 

Please join me in congratulating and welcoming Melissa and Jaclyn. 

Wendy 

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DC Journalism Museum “Newseum” That Honored Terrorist Hamas and Hosted  al Jazeera America Has Closed

Honoring Islamic terrorists and hosting jihad television on site apparently was not profitable enough to stay in business.

The D.C. museum dedicated to journalism, the First Amendment and a free press will close at the end of the year.

The Newseum said in a statement that the museum will close Dec. 31, 2019. 

The privately-funded museum has struggled financially for years, the statement said.

The museum's primary funder and creator, the Freedom Forum, can't afford to continue operating the building, which stretches more than 400,000 square feet on coveted real estate near the National Mall. The museum charges up to $24.95 for adult admission and has competed with a host of free museums just blocks away. 

Johns Hopkins University purchased the building earlier this year. At that time, Jan Neuharth, the chair and chief executive of Freedom Forum, said the museum was looking for a new home in the D.C. area.

The Newseum didn't announce any plans to move its entire collection to a new site, but a spokesperson told News4 that they hope to find one.

"We hope to find a suitable location that can serve as the Newseum's next home but that process will take time," Sonya Gavankar said in an email.

The Freedom Forum said it will continue operating educational efforts online and through public programs. It's already started searching for short-term office space, Gavankar said.

For the past 11 years, visitors could see sections of the Berlin Wall, a memorial to journalists slain on the job and an exhibit on how news organizations covered 9/11. The Newseum currently has a special exhibit about "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart."

That should tell you about the state of journalism in America today.

It’s no surprise that Newseum has failed - just as the fake news media has failed.  As noted in this 2013 Creeping Sharia post:

DC’s Hamas-honoring Newseum now hosting al Jazeera America (updated)

Al Jazeera is not the only topic on which the Newseum has made troubling decisions lately. This spring, the Newseum included in its memorial to fallen journalists the names of two men killed in Gaza last year while working under the auspices of Al Aqsa Television, Mahmoud al-Kumi and Hussam Salama. Al Aqsa TV has been blacklisted by the U.S. Treasury since 2010 as “financed and controlled by Hamas.” Treasury noted that Al Aqsa “airs programs and music videos designed to recruit children to become Hamas armed fighters and suicide bombers upon reaching adulthood.”

When the Hamas names provoked protest, the Newseum erased them from its online roster of fallen journalists, but not from its in-house exhibit. They remain etched in the glass panels of the memorial, alongside such names as Daniel Pearl. Nearby is a quote from Hillary Clinton, “The men and women of this memorial are truly democracy’s heroes.”

Honoring dead Hamas terrorists is the kind of gesture that might please the emir of Qatar, who last October traveled to Gaza to honor the living leaders of Hamas by promising them $400 million in aid. But it seems a strange way of educating the public in the value of a free press. So does a statement, in reply to my questions, from Newseum spokesman Thompson: “Free speech includes the right to not answer questions.”

Good riddance.

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"I quit being afraid when..."-. Al Neuharth

“I quit being afraid when…”-. Al Neuharth

“I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn’t fall down.” – Al Neuharth.

Be very afraid when you fail to try, so don’t. Fail to try.

Try anf fail.

Although sometimes, you will fall but when you fail, the sky will not fall.

The sky will continue to hang up there, to remind you of the certainty of times and seasons. To let you know that when fall, you should try to rise up…

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Nine dosa burgers McDonald's must introduce if it wants to capture our palates

Nine dosa burgers McDonald’s must introduce if it wants to capture our palates

What will McDonald’s proposed “dosa burger” be called?  MasalaMac? McDosald’s? Or, will they stump us by sticking with good old “McDonald’s” itself and claiming that the capital ‘M’ and capital ‘D’ was always a secret code for Masala Dosa which only the great YNK knew? Maybe not. Let’s assume, then, that Mac launches the dosa in a bun and it becomes a raging ‘hit’ (Kannada for dough) the very day…

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50 Questions Tag

I was tagged by @my-falling-thoughts. Thank you!

1. What time is it for you? 9:43 p.m.

2. Where are you right now? I’m in my bedroom

3. What is the last thing you ate? I had penne with chicken

4. How long have you been on Tumblr? I’ve had this blog for about a year and a half

5. What is your occupation/year in school? I’m going into my senior year, and I work as a journalist and a media associate (and a writer, of course)

6. What is the last text you sent and to whom? I texted my best friend @howellz about my bookstagram account

7. What are your favorite things to do to relax/unwind? Read, write, edit, watch Netflix, walk

8. Have you traveled outside your home country? Where? I’ve been to Jamaica, and I’m visiting Europe for the first time this year!

9. Where would you like to visit if you could go anywhere? I have a huge list. I’d love to see Ireland, England, Greece, Germany, and Israel (to name a few).

10. What’s something you’re looking forward to in the next few days? I’m going to finish editing the second draft of my second novel in a few days!

11. Do you have any siblings? How many? I have 2 younger siblings.

12. Do you prefer nighttime or daytime? Daytime

13. Sweet or savory? Sweet

14. Natural look or glamorous look? I usually prefer to look natural, but it’s fun to feel glamorous sometimes.

15. Reading or writing? I could never choose!

16. Left-handed or right-handed? Right-handed

17. Dine out or dine in? Dine in, because I love to cook, especially Greek food. 

18. Chocolate or vanilla? Chocolate

19. Make music or listen to music? Listen to music

20. Sunset or sunrise? Sunset

21. Listener or talker? It depends on who I’m with

22. City or countryside? City

23. Describe the last dream you can remember. I think I dreamt I was on assignment for work, but I can’t remember what the story was.

24. Describe a dream or nightmare that you can never forget? When I was a child, I would have a recurring nightmare in which I would be chased by monsters down a hall, and it was all in black and white, except for a red line across the wall. I had that dream every night for two years.

25. Have you ever smoked? What did you smoke and what was it like? I never have, and I never will.

26. What is an embarrassing moment you’ve experienced? I’m definitely guilty of saying “you too” when I wasn’t supposed to.

27. Do you like music? What’s your favorite genre? I love music. I listen to wide variety of music, but I love every style of rock.

28. Ever performed in a play or a concert? What was it like? I started dancing, acting, and singing when I was young. I haven’t performed since middle school, because I no longer have the time, but some of my best memories are from performing,

29. One habit you’re trying to start? I’m trying to be more productive in my writing. I also want to use my planner more.

30. One habit you’re trying to quit? I’ve started drinking coffee a lot this summer. I’m not necessarily trying to cut back on coffee, but I’m trying to start making it at home, instead of always buying it.

31. Do you know what you want to do in 10 years? I want to be a lawyer, and I want to make sure I have enough time to continue writing.

32. Do you worry about more often about the past or the future? I worry about the future often.

33. Are you in a relationship? I am not.

34. Describe a date that went horribly wrong? (Or wonderfully great, you pick)? I haven’t been on many dates, but I once went walking on the boardwalk on a date once. The weather was wonderful, and I love to walk, so it’s probably my favorite date so far.

35. Would you call yourself a dreamer? I try to be!

36. An overachiever? I’m definitely driven. I don’t think you can be an overachiever. I believe your reach should always exceed your grasp (as the late Al Neuharth did).

37. A hopeless romantic? I was as a child, but not so much now.

38. Who are your role models and why? It might sound cheesy, but my mom is my biggest inspiration. She’s just so kind and generous. I strive to be like her.

39. What do you tend to spend your money on the most? I use gift cards whenever possible, but I spend most of my money on food and coffee.

40. Put your music on shuffle. What is the song? “Cornerstone” by The Arctic Monkeys.

41. Would you risk your life to save someone else? I would.

42. Have any scars? If you want to share, how did you get them? I’ve had one on my arm almost my whole life. I was born two months premature, so I was on an IV for a long time.

43. Do you want to get married? Yes, but not any time soon.

44. Have kids? How many? I want to adopt children from foster care one day.

45. What is the one thing that never fails to make you smile? Any Bill Vader sketch will make me laugh.

46. What is one thing you learned today? I learned that Columbia University didn’t allow female students until 1983.

47. Are you happy with where you are at right now? I’m happy, but I’m trying to make changes so that I can be even better.

48. List 5 things you cannot live without

My family

Books

My religion

Music

My laptop (all of my work is on here)

49. What is your best quality? I’d like to think I’m kind and accepting. I at least try as hard as possible to be.

50. If you could meet anyone from history who would it be and why? I would love to meet Nikola Tesla. If you don’t know anything about Tesla, please take a moment to learn about him. He was an absolute genius, and I can’t even fathom having a mind like his.

I’m going to tag @thewriterkatie @emziewrites @editedandwrittenbyhannah @indecentpause @forlornraven @ramblingsofabourbondrinker and @firewritten

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USA Today is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15, 1982, USA Today operates from Gannett's corporate headquarters in Tysons, Virginia. Its newspaper is printed at 37 sites across the United States and five additional sites internationally.

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Whelp, it's not so blatantly far-off as OP wrote, but close enough.

The NYT composes the list by sending forms, preprinted with their chosen "bestseller titles" to wholesalers and retailers and sums up the weekly sales (but only for the books they propose). From here on out there's tons of shenanigans going on - here, have some of the wiki, chapter titled "Criticisms":

Fast sales.[7][22] A book that never makes the list can actually outsell books on the best-seller list. This is because the best-seller list reflects sales in a given week, not total sales. Thus, one book may sell heavily in a given week, making the list, while another may sell at a slower pace, never making the list, but selling more copies over time.

Double counting. By including wholesalers in the polls along with retail bookstores, books may be double-counted.[7] Wholesalers report how much they sell to retailers, and retailers report how much they sell to customers, thus there can be overlap with the same reported book being sold twice within a given time frame. In addition, retailers may return books to wholesalers months later if they never sell, thus resulting in a "sale" being reported that never came to fruition. For example, mass-market paperbacks can see as high as 40% return rates from the retailer back to the wholesaler.[7]

Manipulation by authors and publishers. In 1956, author Jean Shepherd created the fake novel I, Libertine to illustrate how easy it was to manipulate the best-seller lists based on demand, as well as sales. Fans of Shepherd's radio show planted references to the book and author so widely that demand for the book led to claims of it being on the Times list.[23][24] Author Jacqueline Susann (Valley of the Dolls) attempted to "butter-up" Times-reporting booksellers and personally bought large quantities of her own book.[7] Author Wayne Dyer (Your Erroneous Zones) purchased thousands of copies of his own book.[7] Al Neuharth (Confessions of an S. O. B.), former head of Gannett Company, had his Gannett Foundation buy two thousand copies of his own autobiography.[7] In 1995, authors Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema spent $200,000 to buy ten thousand copies of The Discipline of Market Leaders from dozens of bookstores.[7] Although they denied any wrongdoing, the book spent 15 weeks on the list. As a result of this scandal the Times began placing a dagger symbol next to any title for which bookstores reported bulk orders.[7] However, daggers do not always appear; for example Tony Hsieh's Delivering Happiness was known to have been manipulated with bulk orders but didn't have a dagger.[25] Companies that contract with authors to manipulate the bestseller list through "bestseller campaigns" include ResultSource.[26]

Manipulation by retailers and wholesalers.[7] It happens with regularity that wholesalers and retailers deliberately or inadvertently manipulate the sales data they report to the Times.[7] Since being on the Times best-seller list increases the sales of a book, bookstores and wholesalers may report a book is a best-seller before it actually is one, in order that it might later become a "legitimate" best-seller through increased sales due to its inclusion on the best-seller list,[7] leading to the best-seller list becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy for the booksellers.

Leading data collection. The Times provides booksellers with a form containing a list of books it believes might be bestsellers, to check off, with an alternative "Other" column to fill in manually.[7] It's been criticized as a leading technique to create a best-seller list based on books the Times thinks might be included.[7] One bookseller compared it to a voting card in which two options for President are provided: "Bill Clinton and Other".[7]

Self-fulfilling. Once a book makes it onto the list it is heavily marketed as a "best-seller", purchased by readers who seek out best-sellers, given preferential treatment by retailers, online and offline, who create special best-seller categories including special in-store placement and price discounts, and is carried by retailers that generally don't carry other books (e.g., supermarkets).[7] Thus, the list can become self-fulfilling in determining which books have high sales and remain on the list.[7]

Conflicts of interest. Due to high financial impact of making the list, since the 1970s publishers have created escalator clauses for major authors stipulating that if a book makes the list the author will receive extra money, based on where it ranks and for how long.[7] Authors may also be able to charge higher speaking fees for the status of being a best-seller.[7] As Book History said, "With so much at stake then, it is no wonder that enormous marketing effort goes into getting a book access to this major marketing tool."[7]

please, please rant about the NYT list

your wish is my command 😌

so basically, the NYT list means shit-all about sales. the only main US bestseller list (aka bestseller lists that show up on book covers, a la “NYT bestselling author Joe Shmoe”) i know of that bases its list on sales is the USA Today bestseller list. if you want an accurate idea of what books are selling in the market, look at that and just forget the NYT list even exists. i’ve heard Sunday Times bases their list on sales, but that’s in the UK and idk how accurate that hearsay is, so if anyone knows, i’d love to learn!

anyway, the NYT list is selected by popularity. that’s it. not the sales = popular type of popularity, but the buzz about the book itself and/or the author (oftentimes it’s the author; i was thinking of Halsey when i made that post). oftentimes, it also depends upon the publisher submitting the book/author to the NYT list editors for consideration for the list. if the publisher pushes it enough and the book/author are popular enough in the world at large, the editors very well might put the book on the list. if they deem it not popular enough, sucks to suck, i guess, and it doesn’t matter if your book has more sales than whichever book they put on the list. if it’s not buzzy, it doesn’t count. hell, i know someone who had more sales week 1 of their debut than a book that was on the NYT list for weeks upon weeks, and their book wasn’t put on the list (my thinking is it’s bc the author is queer and the characters in their book were all queer—it also featured a main f/f romance—which wasn’t the case with the other one that was on the NYT list). so when people brag about hitting the list or are Shocked™ that they hit the list, just know it’s all a popularity contest and sales don’t matter.

now obviously this isn’t meant to diminish what those authors have worked for and how they worked hard for the success they have. this is just me saying that the NYT list doesn’t matter for shit and people need to stop worshipping it.

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In a class on car history (AmCult 212), I was introduced to an interactive website that shows how countless cities across the U.S. changed post-Interstate Highway System. The website can be found here: http://iqc.ou.edu/2014/12/12/60yrsmidwest/.

A brief excerpt from my paper on the issue is offered below. 

On June 29, 1956, President Eisenhower heeded their calls and signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 (“The Interstate Highway System”). The act created a “National System of Interstate and Defense Highways” that spanned 41,000 miles and sought to ensure  “speedy, safe transcontinental travel”. The project was one of the longest-running and most elaborate engineering feats of the U.S. government. Construction ran from 1956 to 1992, costing $114 billion (equivalent to $530 billion in 2019) and spanning the entirety of the continental United States (“Traveling Interstates”). Alaska, Hawa’ii, and Puerto Rico also received funding from the program, but their highways are not officially designated as Interstate Highways (“FHWA”). 

The nature of the IHS’s goals meant that highways would be built through the core of urban areas in order to facilitate inter-metropolitan transportation. This reality very quickly uncovered another: the IHS would devastate Black neighborhoods in city centers. Thomas MacDonald, the head of the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads (BPR) during the IHS’s nascent years, expressed to President Eisenhower the need for housing policy made in conjunction with highway planning so that communities displaced from the construction would not be an afterthought (Mohl 230). This was rejected, however, and the subsequent disarray led to a pattern known as “urban renewal”: 

The federal government rejected an urban policy that integrated highways and housing. However, other powerful interest groups were quick to recognize the implications of Interstate Highway construction at the cities’ cores...The absence of any official interest in rebuilding inner-city housing for those displaced meant that huge sections of central-city land could be cleared for other uses...Because such housing accommodated mostly poor and minority residents, highway building often meant black removal from the central-city area (Mohl 232). 

The IHS, then, prompted a vicious cycle. White flight caused Black urban neighborhoods to flounder for lack of public funding. These neighborhoods, seen as expendable, were then cleared by highway construction, which then provided interest groups the opportunity to clear them for other uses as well. This compounded destruction left Black communities struggling even more than before while highway transit facilitated increased white migration to the suburbs.Mary Bishop, a resident of Roanoke, VA, recalls the gradual collapse of her community: 

The first urban renewal project in 1955, which was called the Commonwealth project, involv[ed] eighty-three acres located in a section of the city known as Northeast. Northeast was situated just north of the central business district, and housed a poor but striving portion of the black community. The Commonwealth project was followed in 1964 by the Kimball project, which destroyed the remaining portion of Northeast. By 1968, a third urban renewal project was designated for Gainsboro, the neighboring African American community…[It] slowly [ate] away at the neighborhood until only a tattered shadow remained to remind people of the once-vibrant area. In 1995...the African American community of Roanoke had been disposed from its original place of settlement (Fullilove 74). 

Many residents quickly realized the outcomes of the IHS, and people began to protest certain construction projects. In 1959, San Francisco residents successfully stopped the construction of the Embarcadero Freeway. Similar victories were won in New York City, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and other cities throughout the 1960s (“The Interstate Highway System”). Advocates for these neigborhoods often used the phrase “Urban renewal means negro removal” (Fullilove 70). Despite the inevitable truth of these words, the IHS was built to near-completion with little consideration for the communities being harmed.

References

“FHWA Route Log and Finder List.” U.S. Department of Transportation/Federal Highway Administration, www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/national_highway_system/interstate_highway_system/routefinder/index.cfm.

“Interstate Highway System.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 27 May 2010, www.history.com/topics/us-states/interstate-highway-system.

Mohl, Raymond. “From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: in Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America.” From Tenements to the Taylor Homes: In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America, by John F. Bauman et al., Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000, pp. 226–245.

“ROOT SHOCK: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It .” ROOT SHOCK: How Tearing up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It, by Mindy Thompson Fullilove, NEW VILLAGE Press, 2016, pp. 71–100.

“Traveling Interstates Is Our Sixth Freedom.” USA Today, Gannett Satellite Information Network, 22 June 2006, usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/neuharth/2006-06-22-interstates_x.htm.

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ABC NEWS ANNOUNCES MIREYA VILLARREAL AS DALLAS-BASED CORRESPONDENT

ABC News president Kim Godwin sent the following note to the news division announcing that Mireya Villarreal has joined ABC News as a Dallas-based correspondent.

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Team –  

I am excited to share that Mireya Villarreal has joined ABC News as a Dallas-based correspondent beginning today.

Mireya comes to us from CBS News, where she was a West Coast correspondent for four years, covering 13 states, including Alaska and Hawaii, and a Southern-based correspondent in Texas. She has reported on a wide range of stories, including the recent Texas weather crisis, COVID-19 vaccination efforts across the South and immigration along the border. Mireya was the first network journalist to investigate and report on sexual harassment allegations at Fort Hood in the disappearance and murder of Vanessa Guillen.

Prior to CBS News, Mireya was the lead investigative reporter at KTVT in Dallas. Her career has taken her across the state of Texas working in local news for more than a decade, with stops in the Rio Grande Valley and San Antonio. She began her career as an associate producer, and quickly transitioned to on-air, becoming the first woman to serve as a sports anchor at KGNS in Laredo, Texas.

She has won numerous awards, including several AP awards and three Lone Star Emmys, and was part of the teams that won the 2020 Edward R. Murrow Award for best newscast for in-depth and exclusive coverage from the United States-Mexico border, and NAHJ’s 2021 Al Neuharth Award for Investigative Journalism.

Mireya is a smart and skilled journalist with roots grounded in powerful storytelling of diverse issues that impact communities of color. She will add instrumental value to ABC News’ coverage of this region in America joining Marcus Moore and the team in Texas along with colleagues across the news division.

Please join me in welcoming her to the family.

Kim

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Mountain/Molehill

“The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.”-Al Neuharth 

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USA Today

USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily middle-market newspaper that is the flagship publication of its owner, Gannett. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15, 1982, it operates from Gannett's corporate headquarters in Tysons, Virginia.

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Al Neuharth: Newspaper Executive’s Papers Now at the Library https://ift.tt/2DK0UOY