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Gannett to Announce 2018 Fourth Quarter Financial Results on February 20, 2019

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Monday, February 11, 2019

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    Gannett Co., Inc.(NYSE: GCI) is an innovative, digitally focused media and marketing solutions company committed to strengthening communities across our network.
  • With an unmatched local-to-national reach, Gannett touches the lives of more than 125 million people monthly with our Pulitzer-Prize winning content, consumer experiences and benefits, and advertiser products and services.
  • Gannett brands include USA TODAY NETWORK with the iconic USA TODAY and more than 100 local media brands, digital marketing services companies ReachLocal, WordStream and SweetIQ, and U.K. media company Newsquest.

Poynter Announces Center for Ethics and Leadership, Aims to Elevate Fact-Based Expression and Civil Discourse

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Wednesday, February 6, 2019

In this way, the Center at Poynter aims to be the "industry's ombudsman" a place where journalists, ethicists, and citizens convene to elevate American discourse and battle disinformation and bias.

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  • In this way, the Center at Poynter aims to be the "industry's ombudsman" a place where journalists, ethicists, and citizens convene to elevate American discourse and battle disinformation and bias.
  • Poynter senior vice president Kelly McBride, a writer, teacher and nationally recognized voice on media ethics, will lead the initiative as the Craig Newmark Journalism Ethics Chair.
  • And, in 2017, Craig Newmark Philanthropies gave a $1 million grant to the Poynter Institute to establish the Craig Newmark Journalism Ethics Chair.
  • This work builds public awareness about journalism, media, the First Amendment and discourse that serves democracy and the public good.

Craig Newmark Philanthropies Invests $15M to Strengthen Journalism Ethics for the Digital Age

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Wednesday, February 6, 2019

The gifts $10 million to the Columbia Journalism School and $5 million to the Poynter Institute will boost efforts to strengthen journalism ethics for the digital age.

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  • The gifts $10 million to the Columbia Journalism School and $5 million to the Poynter Institute will boost efforts to strengthen journalism ethics for the digital age.
  • With disinformation flowing through social platforms and the news, its critical to modernize journalism ethics so that the industry keeps pace with the ever-changing digital landscape, said Craig Newmark, founder of craigslist and Craig Newmark Philanthropies.
  • The $10 million gift to Columbia Journalism School will endow the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security and the Craig Newmark Professorship.
  • And, in 2017, Craig Newmark Philanthropies gave a $1 million grant to the Poynter Institute to establish the Craig Newmark Journalism Ethics Chair.