But Editor & Publisher asks whether quarterback Brett Favre's retirement is worth a 12-page Green Bay Press-Gazette special edition.Yepper, says Executive Editor John Dye. "It is one of our main news topics," he says about Green Bay Packers coverage. "It depends on your perception of what a community newspaper is. We are already getting e-mails from people on where they can buy copies."
The paper plans to distribute 50,000 extra editions beginning at about 3 p.m. CT through some 400 outlets, charging $1 per copy, E&P says. Dye said seven or eight pages had been built before today's announcement that Favre, the 16-year veteran and Super Bowl champion, would not return for the next season.
[Hat tip, Romenesko; image: this morning's Press-Gazette, Newseum]
You have to live in Wisconsin to understand that Favre's retirement is like free money for the Press-Gazette and other Gannett newspapers.
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