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·	Insider and 5%+ Owners: 2%
·	Over the last 6 months: · 14 insider sells; 102.0K shares (1.9% of insider shares)
·	Institutional: 78% (80% of float) (1,231 institutions)
·	Net Inst. Buying: 1.16M shares (+0.56%) (prior quarter to latest quarter)

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Business Summary

Gannett Co., Inc. is a diversified news and information company that publishes newspapers, operates broadcasting stations and is engaged in marketing, commercial printing, a newswire service, data services and news programming. Gannett is an international company with headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, and operations in 43 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Hong Kong. Gannett is the United States' largest newspaper group in terms of circulation. The Company's 99 U.S. daily newspapers have a combined daily paid circulation of 7.8 million. They include USA TODAY, the nation's largest-selling daily newspaper, with a circulation of approximately 2.3 million. In addition, Gannett owns a variety of non-daily publications, and USA WEEKEND, a weekly newspaper magazine.

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Financial Summary

GCI publishes newspapers, operates broadcasting stations and is engaged in marketing, commercial printing, a newswire service and data services. For the 26 weeks ended 7/1/01, revenues rose 16% to $3.2 billion. Net income from continuing operations fell 13% to $408 million. Revenues reflect higher newspaper advertising and circulation revenues due to acquisitions. Earnings were offset by increased interest expense due to higher average debt levels.

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Officers

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	FY2000 Compensation
	Pay	Exer

Douglas McCorkindale, 61 Chairman, Pres, CEO	$3.1M	$4.3M
Larry Miller, 61 CFO, Exec. VP	1.0M	--
Thomas Chapple, 52 Sr. VP, Gen. Counsel, and Sec.	--	--
Richard Clapp, 59 Sr. VP of HR	--	--
Thomas Curley, 51 Sr. VP of Admin.	--	--
Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-2000 and compensation values are for the fiscal year ending on that date; "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc.; "Exer" is the value of options excercised during the fiscal year.

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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:GCI

As of 31-Aug-2001

Price and Volume
52-Week Low on 25-Sep-2000	$`48.375`
Recent Price	$`61.66`
52-Week High on 22-May-2001	$`70.02`
Beta	`0.76`
Daily Volume (3-month avg)	`712.9K`
Daily Volume (10-day avg)	`655.0K`
Stock Performance
big chart [1d \| 5d \| 3m \| 6m \| 1y \| 2y \| 5y \| max]
52-Week Change	`+7.7%`
52-Week Change relative to S&P500	`+44.5%`
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization	$`16.3B`
Shares Outstanding	`264.8M`
Float	`259.5M`
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend (indicated)	$`0.92`
Dividend Yield	`1.49%`
Last Split: 2 for 1 on 7-Oct-1997

Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)	$`20.19`
Earnings (ttm)	$`3.43`
Earnings (mrq)	$`0.88`
Sales (ttm)	$`25.05`
Cash (mrq*)	$`0.57`
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)	`3.05`
Price/Earnings (ttm)	`17.98`
Price/Sales (ttm)	`2.46`
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)	$`6.66B`
EBITDA (ttm*)	$`2.26B`
Income available to common (ttm)	$`911.2M`
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)	`13.7%`
Operating Margin (ttm)	`27.3%`
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year Ends	Dec 31
Most recent quarter (fully updated)	1-July-2001
Most recent quarter (flash earnings)	30-June-2001

Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)	`7.57%`
Return on Equity (ttm)	`18.13%`
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)	`1.08`
Debt/Equity (mrq*)	`1.01`
Total Cash (mrq)	$`150.7M`
Short Interest As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short	`2.68M`
Percent of Float	`1.0%`
Shares Short (Prior Month)	`2.62M`
Short Ratio	`3.69`
Daily Volume	`728.0K`

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