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Blogs	Description	Date Updated
Gannett goes shopping for ShopLocal	Filed under: Gannett Co (GCI)There seems to be no end to the bad news for newspaper companies. Yet this may actually be good for Gannett (NYSE: GCI). That is, the company has acquired the rest of ShopLocal.com from McClatchy (NYSE: MNI) and Tribune, which recently went private. The details: Gannett snagged McClatchy's 15% stake for $7.9 million and Tribune's 42.5% position for $22.3 million.ShopLocal calls itself as a "multi-channel shopping services" company. Essentially, the platform helps you...	July 09, 2008
Cohn & Wolfe Merges With GCI.	Cohn & Wolfe announced the merger of itself and GCI. These two big communications outfits found lots of laudable reasons to substantiate the merger. Maybe it is a good idea? But for investors who are used to a few metrics the press release missed the point. Cohn & Wolfe is part of WPP which is approximately $10 billion plus in revenues. So what is the deal worth? What are the terms and conditions? Given that the ADR shares trade on NASDAQ there should be some adherence to Reg FD. Given that...	July 03, 2008
Festival of Stocks at Contrarian Value Investing	The 95th edition of the Festival of Stocks has been posted at Contrarian Value Investing. This week’s Festival of Stocks features my post on Mosaic Chapter 11: Dhando! My favorite story of the week was a value trap profile of Gannett (GCI) by MagicDilligence. I’m looking for a host for next week’s Festival of Stocks. Please contact me if you are interested. Sponsored By: FPF Contributor’s Corner Special situation opportunities in the stock market for small time investor...	June 30, 2008
Gannett cozies up to the Net	Filed under: Gannett Co (GCI)Like the rest of the newspaper operators in the US, Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) has had a steep drop in its stock price. Basically, to stabilize things, the company needs to find new growth opportunities. And, of course, this is likely to come from the Net. So this week, Gannett announced a strategic investment in Cozi, which is a scheduler for families (the amount was not disclosed). In the deal, Gannet will leverage Cozi's service across its large distribution ...	June 20, 2008
USA Today ad revenue in free fall, a nightmare for the future of print	Filed under: Forecasts, Bad news, Industry, Competitive strategy, Gannett Co (GCI), Economic dataGannett (NYSE:GCI) announced it May revenue results. Nothing in them was surprising. According to the country's largest newspaper company, "Publishing advertising revenues in May were 14.3 percent lower." Classified ad revenue fell even more, almost 20%. Auto, real estate, and jobs marketing have begun to leave newspapers and financial trouble within those industries has cut their ad budgets to the...	June 18, 2008
Gannett (GCI): USA Today Ad Figures Implode (MHP)(GCI)(NWS)(TWX)(WPO)	Gannett (GCI), the country's largest newspaper company posted its revenue for the May period. Advertising revenue dropped 14.3% to $347 million. This was an... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...	June 17, 2008
Answers I Really Wanna Know: Apple's Handheld Computer	Filed under: Apple Inc (AAPL), Gannett Co (GCI), Sun Microsystems (JAVA), Lehman Br Holdings (LEH)Minyanville's top dog, Todd Harrison, dares to ask in public what Wall Street types quietly consider in private. For more insight and ideas, visit www.Minyanville.com. If the next generation Apple (AAPL) iPhone is effectively a handheld computer, is the personal computer space a place to poke on the short side? What's the franchise value for Sun Microsystems (SUNW, er, JAVA)? Ma...	June 10, 2008
Gannett (GCI) Gives Up The Ghost	Gannett (GCI) may take as much as $3 billion in non-cash write-downs for some of its assets. It is that bad in the newspaper industry. The charge would cover... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...	June 10, 2008
Comfort Zone Investing: Another real estate play: Newspapers	Filed under: New York Times'A' (NYT), Gannett Co (GCI), Comfort Zone InvestingTed Allrich is the founder of The Online Investor and author of the just released book: Comfort Zone Investing: Build Wealth And Sleep Well At Night. In this weekly column, he'll offer advice to investors who are just getting started. While lenders and builders have been cruelly battered by a real estate market that seems to have no bottom, there's another industry group that suffers as much if not more: the newspaper...	May 24, 2008
Gannett numbers get worse	Filed under: Earnings reports, Bad news, Gannett Co (GCI), Economic dataIn a sign that the newspaper industry's problems are accelerating, Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI), the largest newspaper chain in the US, posted awful numbers for April. The information makes it more likely that the stocks of smaller paper companies like The McClatchy Company (NYSE: MNI) will take a dive over the next several weeks. GCI revenues for the period ended May 4, 2008 declined 7.7 % compared with the same period in...	May 19, 2008

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