September 15
USA TODAY DAY
USA Today, a publication of the Gannett media empire, was published for the first time on this day in 1982. The paper was called “The Nation’s Newspaper.” Critics called the satellite-transmitted, colorful, splashy, somewhat glitzy publication, “News McNugggets,” “The Nation’s Comic Book” and the winner of the “Pulitzer Prize for Best Investigative Paragraph.”
Several books have been written about the newspaper that is now read by millions each day. Two such volumes chronicling the rise of USA Today are Gannett Chairman Al Neuharth’s Confessions of an S.O.B. and Peter S. Prichard’s The Making of McPaper.
USA Today -- now with editions throughout the world -- has changed the shape of newspapers everywhere. Many have imitated the fast-reading format pioneered by USA Today in an attempt to revitalize the suffering newspaper industry.
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