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From Zero Hedge:

Go long Gannett at your own peril.

According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, in a memo submitted to staff on Friday, "USA Today publisher David Hunke said the average circulation at the Gannett Co.-owned newspaper was 1.88 million from April through September. That marks a loss of 398,000 copies, or 17 percent, from the same period the year before at the newspaper, which is printed on weekdays only."

The reason for this unprecedented drop, which will put the paper in second position behind a growing Wall Street Journal, is the "growth of online news and the slump in travel pummel the newspaper."

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