Word: rosslyn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...format and main studio in Rosslyn, Va., are still under construction. But four network-credentialed anchors -- NBC's Bill Macatee and Robin Young and ABC's Edie Magnus and Kenneth Walker -- have been hired, and Friedman sounds confident that he has caught the next video wave. Says he: "This is television for the '90s." Gulp...
...Gannett Co. Inc., the year has opened with a shopping spree. In January the Rosslyn, Va.-based media giant, which publishes 124 newspapers, including the national daily USA Today, announced it was buying the respected Des Moines Register (circ. 240,000) and three sister papers in Tennessee and Iowa for $200 million from the Des Moines Register & Tribune Co. Last week Gannett purchased the nation's fourth-largestcirculation periodical, Family Weekly (the leaders: Parade, 23 million; the Reader's Digest, 18 million; TV Guide, 17 million...
...decisions: the first issue reported the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel on page 9, and another early issue headlined the "news" MEN, WOMEN: WE'RE STILL DIFFERENT. But USA Today has steadily become more conventionally informative. The 375 editorial staffers, headquartered in an office tower in Rosslyn, Va., across the Potomac from Washington, assemble hundreds of items per issue, only a handful of them more than 500 words long. Yet the consumer-oriented daily "Money" section solidly covers business and economics, and the editorial page imaginatively devotes its space each day to exploring a single issue. Other...
...there seems to be no thought of turning back. As if to symbolize that commitment, Neuharth announced last week that the company was moving its headquarters from Rochester, where Gannett has been based since the chain acquired its flagship Times-Union in 1918, to the USA Today building in Rosslyn. The onetime chain of small town newspapers is determinedly making itself a presence in one of the centers of national journalism...
...idea for USA Today, which now occupies 160,000 sq. ft. of a Rosslyn, Va., office tower overlooking the capital's monuments, was nurtured about three years ago in a bungalow mere blocks away from Neuharth's home in Cocoa Beach, Fla.; the Gannett team worked behind windows coated with reflective paper to discourage the curious. By April 1981 the plan had progressed to prototype issues, which were mailed to public figures, journalists and financial analysts for comment. Some of the reaction was pungent. Publisher Joe Murray of the Pulitzer-prizewinning Lufkin, Texas, News returned his dummy issue...