USA Today Co.
| Formerly | Gannett Company (1906–2025) |
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| Company type | Public |
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| ISIN | US36472T1097 |
| Industry | Media |
| Genre | Publishing |
| Founded | October 6, 1906 in Rochester, New York June 29, 2015 (extant Gannett Company) |
| Founder | Frank Gannett |
| Successor | Tegna Inc. (broadcasting) |
| Headquarters | , |
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| Services | Publishing/digital marketing solutions |
| Revenue | US$2.9 billion (2022) |
| US$–146 million (2019) | |
| US$–119 million (2019) | |
| Total assets | US$4.02 billion (2019) |
| Total equity | US$981 million (2019) |
| Owner | Fortress Investment Group |
Number of employees | 11,200 (2022) |
| Parent | New Media Investment Group |
| Subsidiaries | Newsquest |
| Website | usatodayco |
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USA Today Co., Inc., formerly known as Gannett (/ɡəˈnɛt/ gə-NET), is an American mass media holding company headquartered in New York City. It is the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation.
Gannett owns the national newspaper USA Today, as well as multiple local newspapers, including the Detroit Free Press; The Indianapolis Star; The Cincinnati Enquirer; The Columbus Dispatch; The Florida Times-Union in Jacksonville, Florida; The Tallahassee Democrat in Tallahassee, Florida; The Tennessean in Nashville, Tennessee; The Daily News Journal, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee; The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky; the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, New York; The Des Moines Register; the El Paso Times; The Arizona Republic in Phoenix, Arizona; The News-Press in Fort Myers, Florida; the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; the Argus Leader; The Pueblo Chieftain; and the Great Falls Tribune.
In 2015, Gannett split into two publicly traded companies, one focusing on newspapers and publishing and the other on broadcasting. The broadcasting company took the name Tegna, and owns about 68 TV stations. The newspaper company inherited the Gannett name. The split was structured so that Tegna is the legal successor of the old Gannett, while the new Gannett is a spin-off.
In 2018 Gannett along with 90 additional Fortune 500 companies had "paid an effective federal tax rate of 0% or less" as a result of Donald Trump´s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
In November 2019, New Media Investment Group acquired and merged its GateHouse Media subsidiary into Gannett, creating the largest newspaper publisher in the United States, which adopted the Gannett name. Mike Reed was named CEO.
On November 4, 2025, the company announced it was renaming Gannett to USA Today Co. The rebranding took effect on November 18, 2025 and the stock is trading under the ticker "TDAY".