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Al Neuharth founded USA Today on September 15, 1982.
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USA TODAY releases thier very first issue of the newspaper. It cost 25 cents.
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Al Neuharth retires from Gannett at age 65.
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USA TODAY finally begins to make some profit. It only survived this long because of huge interjections from the capitol.
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USA TODAY covered the trajety that happened in our country on September 11th.
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The newspaper vies with The Wall Street Journal for the position of having the widest circulation of any newspaper in the United States.
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Karen Jurgensen and Hal Ritter both resign. Also, Brian Gallagher, the newspaper's executive editor, told his colleagues at a meeting that he would stay in his current role long enough to make a transition to the next editor, but would not remain in that job for the long term.
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2 phone companies' alleged dealings with NSA were not verified.
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USA TODAY creates their first online newspaper.
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USA TODAY expects the biggest sales drop since thier paper started 27 years prior. They had lost 17% of sales in just the past year.
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USA TODAY sells 1.8 million copies!
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USA TODAY makes 130 layoffs this fall. Newsroom is cut up into "content rings."
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USA TODAY changes its format of the paper by :
A larger logo at the top.
A new sans-serif font, called Prelo, for certain headlines of main stories.
Increasing and decreasing of mastheads and white space in order to present a cleaner style. -
USA TODAY expects a huge boost in circulation because they've gone online.
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The circulation rose more than it had in two years. Schools wanted digital copies for the students.
