American national daily newspaper
USA Today
(often stylized in
all caps
[5]
) is an American daily
middle-market newspaper
and
news broadcasting
company. Founded by
Al Neuharth
in 1980 and launched on September 14, 1982, the newspaper operates from
Gannett
's corporate headquarters in
Tysons, Virginia
.
[6]
Its newspaper is printed at 37 sites across the United States and at five additional sites internationally. The paper's dynamic design influenced the style of local, regional, and national newspapers worldwide through its use of concise reports, colorized images,
informational graphics
, and inclusion of
popular culture
stories, among other distinct features.
[7]
[8]
With an average print circulation of 159,233 as of 2022,
[update]
[9]
a digital-only subscriber base of 504,000 as of 2019,
[update]
[10]
and an approximate daily readership of 2.6 million,
[5]
USA Today
has the
fourth largest circulation
of any newspaper in the United States. It has been shown to maintain a generally
center-left
audience, in regards to political
persuasion
.
[11]
USA Today
is distributed in all 50
states
,
Washington, D.C.
, and
Puerto Rico
, and an international edition is distributed in
Asia
,
Canada
,
Europe
, and the
Pacific Islands
.
[12]
History
[
edit
]
USA Today
was first conceived on February 29, 1980, when a company task force known as "Project NN" met with the then-chairman of
Gannett
,
Al Neuharth
, in
Cocoa Beach, Florida
. Early regional prototypes of
USA Today
included
East Bay Today
, an
Oakland, California
-based publication published in the late 1970s to serve as the morning edition of the
Oakland Tribune
, an afternoon newspaper that Gannett owned at the time.
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On June 11, 1981, Gannett printed the first prototypes of the proposed publication. The two proposed design layouts were mailed to newsmakers and prominent leaders in journalism for review and feedback.
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[14]
Gannett's board of directors approved the launch of the national newspaper, titled
USA Today
, on December 5, 1981. At launch, Neuharth was appointed president and publisher of the newspaper, adding those responsibilities to his existing position as Gannett's
chief executive officer
.
[14]
[15]
Gannett announced the launch of the paper on April 20, 1982.
USA Today
began publishing on September 14, 1982, initially in the
Baltimore
and
Washington, D.C.
metropolitan areas,
[16]
[17]
for a newsstand price of 25¢ (equivalent to 79¢ in 2023). After selling out the first issue, Gannett gradually expanded the national distribution of the paper, reaching an estimated circulation of 362,879 copies by the end of 1982, double the amount of sales that Gannett projected.
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citation needed
]
Original logo, used from 1982 to 2012
The design uniquely incorporated color graphics and photographs. Initially, only its front news section pages were rendered in four-color, while the remaining pages were printed in a
spot color
format. The paper's overall style and elevated use of graphics?developed by Neuharth, in collaboration with staff graphics designers George Rorick, Sam Ward, Suzy Parker, John Sherlock and Web Brya?were derided by critics, who referred to it as a "
McPaper
" or "television you can wrap fish in", because it opted to incorporate concise nuggets of information more akin to the style of
television news
, rather than in-depth stories like traditional newspapers, which many in the newspaper industry considered to be a
dumbing down
of content.
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Although
USA Today
had been profitable for just ten years as of 1997, it changed the appearance and feel of newspapers around the world.
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On July 2, 1984, the newspaper switched from predominantly black-and-white to full-color photography and graphics in all four sections. The following week, on July 10,
USA Today
launched an international edition intended for U.S. readers abroad, followed four months later on October 8 with the rollout of the first transmission via satellite of its international version to
Singapore
. On April 8, 1985, the paper published its first special bonus section, a 12-page section called "Baseball '85", which previewed the
1985 Major League Baseball season
.
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By the fourth quarter of 1985,
USA Today
had become the second-largest newspaper in the United States, reaching a daily circulation of 1.4 million copies. Total daily readership of the paper by 1987 (according to Simmons Market Research Bureau statistics) had reached 5.5 million, the largest of any daily newspaper in the U.S. On May 6, 1986,
USA Today
began production of its international edition in
Switzerland
.
USA Today
operated at a loss for most of its first four years of operation, accumulating a total deficit of $233 million after taxes. According to figures released by Gannett in July 1987, the newspaper began turning its first profit in May 1987, six months ahead of Gannett's corporate revenue projections.
[14]
On January 29, 1988,
USA Today
published the largest edition in its history, a 78-page weekend edition featuring a section previewing
Super Bowl XXII
; the edition included 44.38 pages of advertising and sold 2,114,055 copies, setting a single-day record for an American newspaper (and surpassed seven months later on September 2, when its
Labor Day
weekend edition sold 2,257,734 copies). On April 15,
USA Today
launched a third international printing site, based in
Hong Kong
. The international edition set circulation and advertising records during August 1988, with coverage of the
1988 Summer Olympics
, selling more than 60,000 copies and 100 pages of advertising.
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By July 1991, Simmons Market Research Bureau estimated that
USA Today
had a total daily readership of nearly 6.6 million, an all-time high and the largest readership of any daily newspaper in the United States. On September 1, 1991,
USA Today
launched a fourth printsite for its international edition in London for the
United Kingdom
and the
British Isles
.
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The international edition's schedule was changed as of April 1, 1994, to Monday through Friday, rather than from Tuesday through Saturday, in order to accommodate business travelers; on February 1, 1995,
USA Today
opened its first editorial bureau outside the United States at its Hong Kong publishing facility; additional editorial bureaus were launched in London and
Moscow
in 1996.
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On April 17, 1995,
USA Today
launched its website to provide real-time news coverage; in June 2002, the site expanded to include a section providing travel information and booking tools. On August 28, 1995, a fifth international publishing site was launched in
Frankfurt, Germany
, to print and distribute the international edition throughout most of Europe.
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On October 4, 1999,
USA Today
began running advertisements on its front page for the first time.
[14]
In 2017, some pages of USA Today's website features
Auto-Play
functionality for video or audio-aided stories.
On February 8, 2000, Gannett launched
USA Today Live
, a broadcast and Internet initiative designed to provide coverage from the newspaper to broadcast television stations nationwide for use in their local newscasts and their websites; the venture also provided integration with the
USA Today
website, which transitioned from a text-based format to feature audio and video clips of news content.
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The paper launched a sixth printing site for its international edition on May 15, 2000, in
Milan
,
Italy
, followed on July 10 by the launch of an international printing facility in
Charleroi, Belgium
.
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In 2001, two interactive units were launched: on June 19,
USA Today
and Gannett Newspapers launched the USA Today Careers Network (now Careers.com), a website featuring localized employment listings, then on July 18, the USA Today News Center was launched as an interactive television news service developed through a joint venture with the On Command Corporation that was distributed to hotels around the United States. On September 12 of that year, the newspaper set an all-time single day circulation record, selling 3,638,600 copies for its edition covering the
September 11 attacks
. That November,
USA Today
migrated its operations from Gannett's previous corporate headquarters in
Arlington, Virginia
, to the company's new headquarters in nearby
McLean
.
[14]
In 2004,
Jack Kelley
, a senior foreign correspondent for USA Today, was found to have fabricated foreign news reports over the past decade. Kelley resigned.
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On December 12, 2005, Gannett announced that it would combine the separate newsroom operations of the online and print entities of
USA Today
, with USAToday.com's vice president and editor-in-chief Kinsey Wilson promoted to co-executive editor, alongside existing executive editor John Hillkirk.
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In December 2010,
USA Today
launched the USA Today
API
for sharing data with partners of all types.
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Newsroom restructuring and 2011 graphical tweaks
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edit
]
On August 27, 2010,
USA Today
announced that it would undergo a reorganization of its newsroom, announcing the layoffs of 130 staffers. It also announced that the paper would shift its focus away from print and place more emphasis on its digital platforms (including USAToday.com and its related
mobile applications
) and launch of a new publication called
USA Today Sports
.
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citation needed
]
On January 24, 2011, to reverse a revenue slide, the paper introduced a tweaked format that modified the appearance of its front section pages, which included a larger logo at the top of each page; coloring tweaks to section front pages; a new
sans-serif
font, called Prelo, for certain headlines of main stories (replacing the Gulliver typeface that had been implemented for story headers in April 2000); an updated "Newsline" feature featuring larger, "newsier" headline entry points; and the increasing and decreasing of
mastheads
and white space to present a cleaner style.
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2012 redesign
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edit
]
Miguel Vazquez from
USA Today
shows off the publication's Metro App, 2012.
On September 14, 2012,
USA Today
underwent the first major redesign in its history, in commemoration for the 30th anniversary of the paper's first edition.
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Developed in conjunction with brand design firm
Wolff Olins
, the print edition of
USA Today
added a page covering technology stories, expanded travel coverage within the Life section, and increased the number of color pages included in each edition, while retaining longtime elements.
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The "globe" logo used since the paper's inception was replaced with a new logo featuring a large circle rendered in colors corresponding to each of the sections, serving as an infographic that changes with news stories, containing images representing that day's top stories.
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The paper's website was also extensively overhauled using a new, in-house
content management system
known as Presto and a design created by Fantasy Interactive, that incorporates flipboard-style navigation to switch between individual stories (which obscure most of the main and section pages), clickable video advertising and a
responsive design
layout. The site was designed and developed to be more interactive, faster, provide "high impact" advertising units (known as Gravity), and provide the ability for Gannett to syndicate
USA Today
content to the websites of its local properties, and vice versa. To accomplish this goal,
Gannett Digital
migrated its newspaper and television station websites to the Presto platform. Developers built a separate platform to provide optimizations for
mobile
and
touchscreen
devices. The Gravity ad won Digiday's Best Publishing Innovation in Advertising in 2016, thanks to an 80% full-watch user engagement rate on desktop, and 96% on mobile.
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Following the relaunch, the editorial team behind
USA Today
Investigations ramped up its "longread" article plans, following the success of the series
Ghost Factories
. With differing platform requirements,
USA Today's
mobile website did not offer any specialized support for these multi-chapter stories. Nearing the end of 2012, more than one-third of
USA Today
's
readership was browsing only using their mobile phones, and the majority of these users were accessing the mobile website (as opposed to the iOS and Android applications) with the newer, less-obtrusive advertising strategy. Gannet Digital designed, developed, and released the longread mobile experience to coincide with the launch of
Brad Heath
's series
Locked Up
, which won the
Investigative Reporters and Editors
Tom Renner Award in October 2013.
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Gannett Digital's focus on its mobile content experience paid off in 2012 with multiple awards; including the Eppy for Best Mobile Application, the Mobile Excellence award for Best User Experience, the MOBI award for Editorial Content, and Mobile Publisher of the Year.
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The
USA Today
site design was launched on desktop, mobile and TV throughout 2013 and 2014, although archive content accessible through
search engines
remains available through the pre-relaunch design.
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Mid-2010s expansion and restructuring
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On October 6, 2013, Gannett test launched a condensed daily edition of
USA Today
(part of what was internally known within Gannett as the "Butterfly" initiative) for distribution as an insert in four of its newspapers ?
The Indianapolis Star
, the
Rochester Democrat & Chronicle
, the
Fort Myers
-based
The News-Press
and the
Appleton, Wisconsin
-based
The Post-Crescent
. The launch of the syndicated insert caused
USA Today
to restructure its operations to allow seven-day-a-week production to accommodate the packaging of its national and international news content and enterprise stories (comprising about 10 pages for the weekday and Saturday editions, and up to 22 pages for the Sunday edition) into the pilot insert. Gannett later announced on December 11, that it would formally launch the condensed daily edition of
USA Today
in 31 additional local newspapers nationwide through April 2014 (with the
Palm Springs, California
-based
The Desert Sun
and the
Lafayette, Louisiana
-based
Advertiser
being the first newspapers outside of the pilot program participants to add the supplement on December 15), citing "positive feedback" to the feature from readers and advertisers of the initial four papers. Gannett was given permission from the
Alliance for Audited Media
to count the circulation figures from the syndicated local insert with the total circulation count for the flagship national edition of
USA Today
.
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On January 4, 2014,
USA Today
acquired the consumer product review website
Reviewed
.
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In the first quarter of 2014, Gannett launched a condensed
USA Today
insert into 31 other newspapers in its network, thereby increasing the number of inserts to 35, in an effort to shore up circulation after it regained its position as the highest-circulated weekday newspaper in the United States in October 2013.
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On September 3, 2014,
USA Today
announced that it would lay off roughly 70 employees in a restructuring of its newsroom and business operations.
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In October 2014,
USA Today
and OpenWager Inc. entered into a partnership to release a
Bingo
mobile app
called USA Today Bingo Cruise.
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On December 3, 2015, Gannett formally launched the USA Today Network, a national digital newsgathering service providing shared content between
USA Today
and the company's 92 local newspapers throughout the United States as well as pooling advertising services on both a hyperlocal and national scale. The
Courier Journal
had earlier soft-launched the service as part of a pilot program started on November 17, coinciding with an imaging rebrand for the
Louisville, Kentucky
-based newspaper; Gannett's other local newspaper properties, as well as those it acquired through its merger with the
Journal Media Group
, gradually began identifying themselves as part of the USA Today Network (foregoing use of the Gannett name outside of requisite ownership references) through early January 2016.
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In May 2021, USA Today introduced a
paywall
for some of its online stories.
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On June 16, 2022, it was reported that USA Today removed 23 articles written by journalist Gabriela Miranda after an inquiry related to one of her articles triggered an internal investigation and found that Miranda had fabricated sources on articles pertaining to the
Texas Heartbeat Act
, Ukrainian women's issues due to the
Russian invasion
, and an article on sunscreen. Miranda resigned.
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Layout and format
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Cover page used for February 5, 2009
USA Today
is known for news in compact, easy-to-read-and-comprehend stories. In the main edition circulated in the United States and
Canada
, each edition consists of four sections: News (the "front page" section), Money, Sports, and Life. Since March 1998, the Friday edition of Life has been split into two sections: the regular Life focusing on entertainment (subtitled
Weekend
; section E), which features television reviews and
listings
, a
DVD
column,
film reviews
and trends, and a travel supplement called
Destinations & Diversions
(section D). The international edition of the paper features two sections: News and Money in one, and Sports and Life in the other.
Atypical of most daily newspapers, the paper does not print on Saturdays and Sundays; the Friday edition serves as the weekend edition.
USA Today
has published special Saturday and Sunday editions in the past: the first issue released during the standard calendar weekend was published on January 19, 1991, when it released a Saturday "Extra" edition updating coverage of the
Gulf War
from the previous day; the paper published special seven-day-a-week editions for the first time on July 19, 1996, when it published special editions for exclusive distribution in the host city of
Atlanta
and surrounding areas for the two-week duration of the
1996 Summer Olympics
.
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USA Today
prints each complete story on the front page of the respective section, with the exception of the cover story. The cover story is a longer story that requires a jump (readers must turn to another page in the paper to complete the story, usually the next page of that section). On certain days, the news or sports section, will take up two paper sections, and there will be a second cover story within the second section.
Each section is differentiated by a certain color in a box on the top-left corner of the first page; the principal section colors are blue for News (section A), green for Money (section B), red for Sports (section C), and purple for Life (section D); in the paper's early years, the Life and Money sections were also assigned blue nameplates and spot colors, as the presses used at
USA Today
's printing facilities did not yet accommodate the use of other colors to denote all four original sections.
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Orange is used for bonus sections (sections E+), which are published occasionally for
business travel
trends and the
Olympics
. Other bonus sections for sports (such as for the
PGA Tour
preview,
NCAA basketball tournaments
,
Memorial Day
auto races (
Indianapolis 500
and
Coca-Cola 600
),
NFL
opening weekend and the
Super Bowl
) previously used the orange color, but later changed to the regular sports red in their sports bonus sections. To strengthen their association with
USA Today
, Gannett incorporated the
USA Today
color scheme into a graphics package for TV news programming that was phased in from late 2012 across its television station group (which was spun-off in July 2015 into the separate broadcast and digital media company
Tegna
). The package uses the color scheme in a rundown graphic on most stations, persisting throughout their newscasts, as well as bumpers for individual story topics.
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In many ways,
USA Today
breaks the traditional newspaper layout. Some examples of its divergence from tradition include using the left-hand quarter of each section as "reefers" (front-page paragraphs
referring
to stories on inside pages
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), sometimes using sentence-length
blurbs
to describe stories inside. The lead reefer is the cover page feature "Newsline", which shows summarized descriptions of headline stories featured in all four main sections and any special sections. As a national newspaper,
USA Today
cannot focus on the weather for any one city. Therefore, the entire back page of the News section is used for weather maps of the
continental United States
,
Puerto Rico
and the
U.S. Virgin Islands
, as well as temperature lists for many cities throughout the U.S. and the world. Temperatures for individual cities on the primary forecast map and temperature lists are suffixed with a one- or two-letter code, such as "t" for
thunderstorms
, referencing the expected weather conditions. The colorized forecast map was created by staff designer George Rorick (who left
USA Today
for a similar position at
The Detroit News
in 1986) and was copied by newspapers around the world, breaking from the traditional style of monochrome contouring or simplistic text to denote temperature ranges.
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National precipitation maps for the next three days (the next five days before the 2012 redesign) and four-day forecasts and
air quality indexes
for 36 major U.S. cities (16 cities prior to 1999), with individual cities color-coded by the temperature contour corresponding to the given area on the forecast map, are also featured. Weather data is provided by
AccuWeather
, which has served as the forecast provider for
USA Today
for most of the paper's existence (except from January 2002 to September 2012, when forecast data was provided by
The Weather Channel
through a long-term multimedia content agreement with Gannett).
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In the bottom left-hand corner of the weather page is "Weather Focus", a graphic which explains various meteorological phenomena. On some days, the Weather Focus could be a photo of a rare meteorological event.
On business holidays or days when bonus sections are included in the issue, the Money and Life sections are usually combined into one section, while combinations of the Friday Life editions into one section are common during quiet weeks. Advertising is often covered in the Monday Money section, with a review of a recent television ad, and after
Super Bowl Sunday
, a review of the ads aired during the broadcast with the results of the
Ad Track
live survey. Stock tables for individual stock exchanges (comprising one subsection for companies traded on the
New York Stock Exchange
, and another for companies trading on
NASDAQ
and the
American Stock Exchange
) and
mutual indexes
were discontinued with the 2012 redesign due to the myriad electronic ways to check individual stock prices, in line with most newspapers.
Book coverage, including reviews and a national sales chart which debuted on October 28, 1994, is seen on Thursdays in Life, with the full
A.C. Nielsen television ratings
chart printed on Wednesdays or Thursdays, depending on release. The paper also publishes the
Mediabase
survey for several genres of music based on radio airplay on Tuesdays, along with their own chart of the top ten singles in general on Wednesdays. Because of the same limitations as its nationalized forecasts, the television page in Life, which provides
prime time
and
late night
listings (running from 8:00 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.
Eastern Time
), incorporates boilerplate "
Local news
" or "
Local programming
" descriptions to denote time periods in which the five major English language broadcast networks (
ABC
,
NBC
,
CBS
,
Fox
and
The CW
) cede airtime to allow their
owned
and
affiliated
stations to carry
syndicated programs
or local newscasts. The television page has never carried local scheduling information similar to those in local newspapers. Like most national papers,
USA Today
has no
comic strips
.
USA Today
is headquartered in
Tysons Corner, Virginia
.
One of the staples of the News section is "Across the USA", a state-by-state roundup of headlines. The summaries consist of paragraph-length
Associated Press
reports highlighting one story in each state, the
District of Columbia
, and one
U.S. territory
. Similarly, the "For the Record" page of the Sports section (which features sports scores for the previous four days of league play plus individual non-league events, seasonal league statistics and wagering lines for that day's games) previously featured a rundown of winning numbers from the previous deadline date for
all participating state lotteries
and individual multi-state lotteries.
Some traditions have been retained. The
lead story
still appears on the upper-right side of the front page. Commentary and political cartoons occupy the last few pages of the News section. Stock and mutual fund data are presented in the Money section. But
USA Today
is sufficiently different in aesthetics to be recognized on sight, even in a mix of other newspapers, such as at a
newsstand
. The overall design and layout of
USA Today
have been described as
neo-Victorian
.
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On most of the sections' front pages, in the lower left-hand corner, are "USA Today Snapshots" graphs, which offer statistics on lifestyle interests according to the section (for example, a snapshot in "Life" could show how many people tend to watch a certain genre of television show based upon their mood). These "Snapshots" graphs employ icons roughly pertaining to the graph's subject (using the example above, the graph's bars could be made up of several TV sets, or ended by one). Snapshots are loosely based on research by a national institute (with the credited source in fine print below the graph).
The newspaper also features an occasional magazine supplement called
Open Air
, which launched on March 7, 2008, and appears several times a year. Other
advertorials
appear throughout the year, mainly on Fridays.
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Opinion section
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]
The opinion section prints
USA Today
editorials, columns by guest writers and members of the editorial board of contributors,
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letters to the editor, and editorial cartoons. One unique feature of the
USA Today
editorial page is the publication of opposing points of view: alongside the editorial board's piece on the day's topic runs an opposing view by a guest writer, often an expert in the field. The Board of Contributors, which is distinct from the paper's news staff, chooses the opinion pieces that appear in each edition.
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From 1999 to 2002 and again from 2004 to 2015, the editorial page editor was Brian Gallagher, who has worked for the newspaper since its founding.
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Other members of the editorial board included deputy editorial page editor Bill Sternberg, executive forum editor John Siniff, op-ed/forum page editor Glen Nishimura, operations editor Thuan Le Elston, letters editor Michelle Poblete, web content editor Eileen Rivers, and editorial writers Dan Carney, George Hager, and Saundra Torry.
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The newspaper's website calls this group "demographically and ideologically diverse."
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Beginning with the
1984 United States presidential election
, USA Today
did not endorse candidates for the
President of the United States
or any other state or federal political office, a policy which has been re-evaluated during each four-year election cycle by the paper's Board of Contributors through an independent process, with any decision to override the policy based on a consensus vote in which fewer than two of the editorial board's members dissent or hold differing opinions.
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For most of its history, the paper's political editorials (most of them linked to the presidential election cycle) had focused instead on major issues based on the differing concerns of voters, the vast array of information on these themes, and the board's aim to offer a fair viewpoint through the diverse political ideologies of its members and avoid reader perceptions of bias.
The avoidance of political editorials played a great part in
USA Today
's
long-standing reputation for "fluff", but after its 30th anniversary revamp, the paper took a more active stance on political issues, calling for stronger gun laws after the
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
in 2012. It heavily criticized the
Republican Party
for both the
2013 government shutdown
and the 2015 revolts in the
United States House of Representatives
that ended with the resignation of
John Boehner
as House Speaker. It also called out then-
President
Barack Obama
and other top members of the
Democratic Party
for what it perceived as "inaction" during 2013?14, particularly over the
NSA scandal
and the
ISIL beheading incidents
.
The editorial board broke from its "non-endorsement" policy for the first time on September 29, 2016, when it published an op-ed piece condemning the candidacy of
Republican
nominee
Donald Trump
, calling him "unfit for the presidency" due to his inflammatory campaign rhetoric (particularly that aimed at the press, with certain media organizations being openly targeted and even banned from campaign rallies, including
The New York Times
,
The Washington Post
,
CNN
and the
BBC
, military veterans who had been prisoners of war, including 2008 Republican presidential candidate and Vietnam War veteran
John McCain
, immigrants, and various ethnic and religious groups); his temperament and lack of financial transparency; his "checkered" business record; his use of false and hyperbolic statements; the inconsistency of his viewpoints and issues with his vision on domestic and foreign policy; and, based on comments he had made during his campaign and criticisms by both
Democrats
and Republicans on these views, the potential risks to national security and constitutional ethics under a Trump administration, asking voters to "resist the siren song of a dangerous demagogue".
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The board wrote that the piece was not a "qualified endorsement" of Democratic nominee
Hillary Clinton
, for whom it was unable to reach a consensus (some editorial board members expressed that Clinton's public service record would help her "serve the nation ably as its president", while others had "serious reservations about [her] sense of entitlement, [...] lack of candor and...
extreme carelessness in handling classified information
"), suggesting instead
tactical voting
against Trump and GOP seats in swing states, advising voters to decide whether to vote for either Clinton,
Libertarian
nominee
Gary Johnson
,
Green Party
nominee
Jill Stein
or a write-in candidate for president; or to focus on Senate, House and other down-ballot political races.
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In February 2018,
USA Today
published an
op-ed
by
Jerome Corsi
, the DC bureau chief for the fringe conspiracy website
InfoWars
.
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Corsi, a prominent
conspiracy theorist
, was described by
USA Today
as an "author" and "investigative journalist".
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Corsi was a prominent proponent of the
false conspiracy theory
that Barack Obama was not a US citizen, and Infowars has promoted conspiracy theories such as
9/11 being an "inside job."
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In October 2018,
USA Today
was criticized by
NBC News
for publishing an editorial by President Trump that was replete with inaccuracies.
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The Washington Post
fact-checker said that "almost every sentence contained a misleading statement or a falsehood."
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In 2020,
USA Today
endorsed a presidential candidate for the first time,
Democratic
nominee
Joe Biden
. The newspaper also published an opposing editorial by Vice President
Mike Pence
, which called for his and Trump's re-election.
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Personnel
[
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]
In May 2012, Larry Kramer, a 40-year media industry veteran and former president of CBS Digital Media, was appointed president and publisher of
USA Today
, replacing
David Hunke
, who had been publisher of the newspaper since 2009.
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Kramer was tasked with developing a new strategy for the paper as it sought to increase revenue from its digital operations.
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In July 2012, Kramer hired
David Callaway
, whom he had hired as lead editor of
MarketWatch
in 1999, two years after Kramer founded that website, as the paper's editor-in-chief. Callaway had previously worked at
Bloomberg News
covering banking, investment-banking, and asset management businesses throughout Europe, and at the
Boston Herald
, where he co-wrote a daily financial column on "comings and goings in the Boston business district".
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The editor-in-chief as of February 2018
[update]
is
Nicole Carroll
.
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Related publications and services
[
edit
]
USA Weekend
[
edit
]
USA Weekend
was a sister publication that launched in 1953 as
Family Weekly
, a national
Sunday magazine
supplement intended for the Sunday editions of U.S. newspapers. It adopted its final title following Gannett's purchase of the magazine in 1985.
[79]
The magazine was distributed to approximately 800 newspapers nationwide at its peak, with most Gannett-owned local newspapers carrying it by default within their Sunday editions. It focused on social issues, entertainment, health, food and travel.
[79]
[80]
On December 5, 2014, Gannett announced the end of
USA Weekend
after the December 26?28, 2014 edition, citing increasing operational costs and reduced advertising revenue. Most of its participating newspapers replaced it with the competing Sunday magazine
Parade
.
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[82]
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USA Today Sports Weekly
[
edit
]
USA Today Sports Weekly
is a weekly magazine that covers news and statistics from
Major League Baseball
,
Minor League Baseball
,
NCAA
baseball, the
National Football League
(NFL), and
NASCAR
. It debuted on April 5, 1991, as
USA Today Baseball Weekly
, a
tabloid
-sized publication published weekly on Wednesdays during the baseball season and bi-weekly during the off-season. The magazine expanded its sports coverage on September 4, 2002, adopting a general title after adding stories about the NFL.
Sports Weekly
added coverage of NASCAR on February 15, 2006, which lasted only through that year's race season. It added coverage of NCAA college football on August 8, 2007. The editorial operations of
Sports Weekly
operated independently from
USA Today
until being integrated into the newspaper's sports department in late 2005.
[14]
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The Big Lead
[
edit
]
The Big Lead
is a sports
blog
operated by
USA Today
that was launched in February 2006 by Fantasy Sports Ventures, co-founded by Jason McIntyre and David Lessa. In April 2008, the blog established a strategic content and marketing partnership with Gannett. Gannett purchased The Big Lead in January 2012.
[88]
The site is usually updated 10 to 15 times per day between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time. It mainly covers sports, but also provides news and commentary on other news topics, ranging from politics to
pop culture
.
USA Today: The Television Show
[
edit
]
In 1987, Gannett and producer/former
NBC
CEO
Grant Tinker
began developing a
news magazine
series for
broadcast syndication
that attempted to bring the breezy style of
USA Today
to television.
[89]
The result was
USA Today: The Television Show
(later
USA Today on TV
,
[90]
then shortened to simply
USA Today
), which premiered on September 12, 1988.
[91]
Correspondents on the program included Edie Magnus,
Robin Young
,
Boyd Matson
, Kenneth Walker, Dale Harimoto, Ann Abernathy,
Bill Macatee
and Beth Ruyak. As with the newspaper, the show was divided into four "sections" corresponding to the respective parts of the paper: News (the major headlines), Money (financial news and consumer reports), Sports (sports news and scores) and Life (entertainment and lifestyle stories). The series was syndicated by GTG Marketing, a subsidiary of GTG Entertainment, which promoted it as a prime access magazine show, hoping that stations would air it in a prime time slot.
[92]
Throughout its run, the series received poor reviews and low ratings. The program also suffered from being scheduled in poor timeslots in certain markets, like
New York City
, the country's largest
media market
, where CBS
O&O station
WCBS-TV
(channel 2) aired the program in a pre-dawn slot before it was picked up by NBC O&O
WNBC
five months into its run. After airing in the equally weak 5:30 a.m. slot, the series was moved to the more clear-eyed 9:30 a.m., but fared no better
[93]
(in contrast,
CITY-DT
in
Toronto
,
Ontario
,
Canada
[which became the
flagship
of the
Citytv
television network], ran it at 5:00 p.m.).
[94]
The series was renewed for a second season, but the setbacks led to the mid-season cancellation of the TV version of
USA Today
in November 1989, after one-and-a-half seasons. The final edition aired on January 7, 1990.
[95]
Gannett announced plans to develop a
USA Today
-branded weekly half-hour television program titled
Sports Page
as part of a renewed initiative to extend the brand into television but this program, planned for fall 2004, never launched.
[14]
VRtually There
[
edit
]
VRtually There
was a weekly
virtual reality
news program produced by the USA Today Network, which debuted on October 20, 2016. The program, which was carried on the
USA Today
mobile app and is still available on
YouTube
, showcased three original segments outlining news stories through a first-person perspective, recorded and produced by journalists from
USA Today
and its co-owned local newspapers. The program included "cubemercials," lengthy commercials made by Gannett's in-house creative studio, GET Creative, with the goal of enabling consumer engagement in totally immersive experiences through virtual reality.
[96]
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The last story was uploaded on August 1, 2017, less than a year after the series was created.
[99]
For the Win
[
edit
]
USA Today
operates a sports website called
For the Win
.
[100]
It was launched in April 2013 and was the first sports property devoted to social news.
[101]
The sports and sports leagues/organizations covered are the
National Football League
(NFL), the
National Basketball Association
(NBA), the
Women's National Basketball Association
(WNBA),
National Hockey League
(NHL),
Major League Baseball
(MLB), college
football
, college
basketball
,
motorsports
,
soccer
,
golf
, outdoor sports, and the
African-American
cable television network
BET
. A gateway to
TicketSmarter
to purchase sports and other event tickets is also hosted.
For the Win
has sections covering pop culture and video games. Some articles for the latter are contributed by Good Luck Have Fun (GLHF), which describes itself as a gaming content agency that provides publishers around the globe, such as
USA Today
and
Sports Illustrated
,
[102]
with text and video.
[103]
Over-the-top and FAST channels
[
edit
]
In 2018, Gannett launched
USA Today
-branded
over-the-top
channels,
USA Today News
and
USA Today SportsWire
(later renamed as USA Today Sports), which would later relaunched in 2021 as
free ad-supported streaming television
(FAST) channels that are available on
Tubi
,
The Roku Channel
,
Xumo Play
,
Plex
,
Amazon Freevee
,
Local Now
and
Samsung TV Plus
.
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Award programs
[
edit
]
- USA Today
Minor League Player of the Year Award
: First presented in 1988, this annual award has been given to a
Minor league baseball
player judged to have had the most outstanding season by a thirteen-person panel of baseball experts.
[105]
- USA Today
All-USA High School Baseball Team
: First presented in 1998, the award honors between nine and eleven outstanding high school baseball players from around the United States with selection to the team (separate awards honoring the High School Baseball Player of the Year and High School Baseball Coach of the Year have been given since 1989
[106]
[107]
).
- USA Today
All-USA High School Basketball Team
: First presented in 1983, the award honors outstanding male and female basketball players from high schools around the United States with selection to the team, with one member of each team being named High School Basketball Player of the Year as well as coaches from a select boys' and girls' team as High School Basketball Coach of the Year.
[107]
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[109]
- USA Today
All-Joe Team (NFL): First presented in 1992 in tribute to
Kansas City Chiefs
veteran defensive lineman
Joe Phillips
, the award honors 52 players across the NFL for exemplary performance during their rookie season.
[110]
- USA Today
/National Prep Poll
High School Football National Championship
: Predating the first publication of
USA Today
under the sole decision of the National Prep Poll, it is a national championship honor awarded to the best
high school football
team(s) in the United States, based on rankings by the newspaper's sports editorial department.
- USA Today
All-USA High School Football Team
: First presented in 1982, the award honors outstanding football players from high schools around the United States (including ranking the Super 25 teams in the U.S., the Top 10 teams in the East, South, Midwest, and West, and
USA Today High School Football Player of the Year
).
[111]
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- USA Today
High School Football Coach of the Year
? First presented in 1982,it is awarded to a coach of one of the teams selected for the All-USA football team.
- USA Today
Road Warrior of the Year only presented once, to Joyce Gioia in 2013.
In popular culture
[
edit
]
- In 1986, the
satirical magazine
The Harvard Lampoon
published an issue that featured a parody of
USA Today
.
[115]
[116]
- Back to the Future Part II
(1989) depicts a
Hill Valley
edition of
USA Today
from October 22, 2015. On that eventual date, the newspaper ran a recreation of the front page in tribute to the film, featuring the same headlines (sans a piece mentioning a
state visit
by "Queen
Diana
", the princess having
died in 1997
).
[117]
[118]
- A 1991 episode of
The Simpsons
("
Homer Defined
") featured a parody of the paper ("U.S. of A. News"), whose lead story was "#2 is #1", in reference to pencils. Lisa criticizes the paper's blandness, but Homer retorts, "Hey, this is the only paper in America that's not afraid to tell the truth, that everything is just fine."
[119]
- A 2010 episode of
Futurama
("
A Clockwork Origin
") featured a parody of the paper ("USB Today").
[120]
The paper was also parodied on the 2007
direct-to-DVD
special "
Bender's Big Score
" as "USA Toady", possibly as a reference to the character
Hypnotoad
.
[121]
- Total Recall
(1990) featured the
Mars Today
newspaper in the film's Mars setting.
- The 2004
mockumentary
feature film
C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America
, directed by
Kevin Willmott
, featured a parody of the newspaper titled
CSA Today
, in the film's fictional
alternate history
setting that the
Confederacy
had won the
American Civil War
.
[122]
See also
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]
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.
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.
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.
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"
.
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.
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.
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"
.
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.
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.
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.
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.
- ^
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.
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.
- ^
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