The latest lawsuit brings the number of one-time paperboys to sue the Democrat and Chronicle for alleged sexual abuse to five.
Gannett
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GateHouse and Gannett agree to merge
GateHouse and Gannett are on the verge of becoming the biggest newspaper company in the US. GateHouse announced Monday that the two companies have agreed to merge, meaning that the Democrat & Chronicle, the Rochester Business Journal, the Canandaigua Daily Messenger, the Daily Record, and USA Today will all have the same owner. GateHouse — […]
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GateHouse and Gannett talk consolidation
GateHouse Media already owns the Canandaigua Daily Messenger and the suburban Post papers. Its business-to-business division, Bridgetower Media, owns the Rochester Business Journal and The Daily Record. Soon, the Democrat & Chronicle could be a GateHouse paper, too. GateHouse and Gannett — the D&C’s owner — are in merger talks, and reports from the Wall […]
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Gannett’s future – and us
One of the big national news stories last week had a deep local angle, and big implications for Rochester: The Democrat and Chronicle’s parent, the Gannett Company – founded here, and in the long-ago past, headquartered here – plans to split into two parts. One will contain its newspapers and their websites, the other its […]
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Feedback 10/23
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The new, ‘more,’ D&C
We’ve had just over a week of the new print version of the Democrat and Chronicle, with, as promised, more content than the old D&C. And I’m not loving it. Change is good. Communities change, readers’ interests change, style and taste change. If we had to read the newspapers that were published 100 years ago, […]
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DEVELOPING: D&C layoffs hitting newsroom
[UPDATE 4:55 P.M.] An article posted on the Democrat and Chronicle’s website says that the company laid of six full-time workers and one part-time worker today. The article doesn’t specify where those cuts occurred. Original post: Layoffs are hitting the Democrat and Chronicle newsroom this morning, according to unconfirmed reports. The extent of the layoffs […]
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Remaking media: the D&C’s hazy future
Media What will the future of journalism look like in this town? That’s a question a lot of people would like to know the answer to, but probably few more so than the editorial staffers at the region’s biggest news outlet. Writers at the Democrat and Chronicle marked 14 years without a contract two weeks […]
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Reader Feedback 9.14.05
Gannett and the Guild, Katrina’s aftermath, pot truth
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Renaissance man
It’s not every day you get to have lunch with an internationally respected architect. Nonetheless, Moshe Safdie expressed surprise that a crowd of nearly 900 turned out to see him over the noon hour last Thursday. The lead architect for the Renaissance Square Project said the crowd at the Rochester Downtown Development Corporation’s luncheon was […]
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Paper pushing
The only show of its kind between Hartford and Chicago, the Antique Paper Show is a paper dealer’s exposition in HoneoyeFalls. For one day each year, the village high school’s gymnasium fills with shuffling collectors flipping through stacks of old postcards and coffee-sipping dealers chirruping over the prices of their most treasured items. It’s like […]
