Gannett Distribution Networks for Dummies
By AAN Staff
july 6, 2006 10:21 am
The battle against Gannett's exclusive newspaper-distribution networks has heated up in the last two months, with
Jackson Free Press and
The Independent Weekly (Lafayette, La.) publishing details in their print editions, JFP launching a "
Goliath blog" to track Gannett's progress in Mississippi, and Editor & Publisher covering the controversy in its latest issue. For anyone still confused about how the "networks" are harmful to alt-weeklies, Darren Schwindaman has explained the process in a cartoon (available
here), which ran as a full page in JFP's print edition.