This is today's Cincinnati Enquirer; click on the image for a bigger view. When I saw the Front Page story about adjusting to time changes, by USA Today reporter Kim Painter (see detail, left), I remembered the style policy once in place at The Idaho Statesman in 1991-96, when it was still owned by Gannett. Because of anti-Gannett sentiment in Boise, we were told to change all USA Today references in bylines to "Gannett News Service,'' in order to remove any association with the nation's top-circulation paper.Does your newspaper have a similar policy? Use this link to e-mail feedback; see Tipsters Anonymous Policy in the sidebar, upper right. Or leave a note in the comments section, below.
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A similar USAT-to-GNS credit line policy has been in place for years at our mid-sized newspaper. I don't know the policy's origins, so I can't say whether it was because of any anti-USAT sentiment. Though most older staffers still make the change, most younger staffers do not. It doesn't seem to be a big deal one way or the other anymore.
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