![]() ![]() Asked directly whether printing these papers ran counter to an online Gannett mission statement “to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation,” the spokesperson said: “We do not discuss our clients and have no further comment.” The Epoch Times, which has been labeled “a leading purveyor of right-wing misinformation” by the New York Times, is also a commercial client. LGIS “are a commercial print client,” a Gannett spokesperson said by email. Gannett, the nation’s largest local newspaper chain, is still printing LGIS content. The papers had already found a new publisher, he said. But Proft, on Twitter, didn’t seem fazed by Paddock canceling LGIS’s contract. ![]() Paddock canceled LGIS’s contract in September-a spokesperson said it would formalize its commercial screening process, add publishing disclaimers in sensitive cases, and strengthen the commercial/editorial separation-but defended the need to diversify revenue amid a “historic downturn” in local news. The owner “took million of dollars in payments from LGIS over a seven-year period to publish and distribute the chain’s newspapers,” an LGIS paper wrote, which Paddock did not deny in emails to the Tow Center. Tow Center reporting shows that LGIS-as well as the Epoch Times-is currently a commercial printing client of Gannett, the nation’s largest local news publisher. * Jem Bartholomew at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism in the Columbia Journalism Review… ![]()
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