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NPR's Terence Samuel to lead USA Today

USA Today has appointed NPR Vice President for Newsgathering and Executive Editor Terence Samuel as its next editor in chief. He will inherit a newsroom with a national reputation buffeted by repeated cuts. Stephen Voss/NPR hide caption

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NPR's Terence Samuel to lead USA Today

June 2, 2023 • USA Today has named Terence Samuel, a veteran political journalist who has helped to lead NPR's newsroom since 2017, to be its next editor in chief.

Newspaper Editor, Activist John Seigenthaler Dies At 86

Nashville Tennessean Editor John Seigenthaler testifies at a Senate Commerce Subcommittee hearing in Washington in 1969. Seigenthaler died Friday at 86. Bob Daugherty/AP hide caption

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Newspaper Editor, Activist John Seigenthaler Dies At 86

July 11, 2014 • He worked for The Tennessean and took leave to assist Robert F. Kennedy in the White House and during the senator's 1968 presidential campaign. He later helped shape USA Today.

Book News: Hacker Leaks Part Of 'Sex And The City' Author's New Book

Author Candace Bushnell attends the March 2010 DVF Awards at the United Nations in New York City. Neilson Barnard/Getty Images hide caption

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Book News: Hacker Leaks Part Of 'Sex And The City' Author's New Book

May 9, 2013 • Also: poems by New York City taxi drivers; Imelda Marcos and the power of spectacle; and USA Today is losing books staffers.

A Thank You To Al Neuharth, Founder Of 'USA Today'

Al Neuharth, founder of USA Today and former CEO of Gannett Co. Roger L. Wollenberg/UPI/Reuters hide caption

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A Thank You To Al Neuharth, Founder Of 'USA Today'

April 20, 2013 • He willed the nation's newspaper into life in 1982. And he insisted on some basic rules that sometimes get forgotten.

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'USA Today' Founder Honoring Olive Garden Columnist Marilyn Hagerty

October 3, 2012 • The 86-year-old North Dakota newspaper columnist become an Internet sensation because of her earnest, positive review of the Olive Garden restaurant in Grand Forks. Back in the '40s, she helped put Al Neuharth on a career track that led him to founding the "nation's newspaper."

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'USA Today' Names New Editor

July 10, 2012 • David Callaway, editor-in-chief at MarketWatch, takes over the top spot at the newspaper.

It's All Politics

Poll: Most Voters Cool On Debt-Ceiling Deal

August 4, 2011 • Pity the poor debt-ceiling deal, disliked inside Washington and evidently just as unloved well beyond the nation's capital. A Gallup/USA Today poll found 46 percent of respondents saying they opposed the deal compared with 39 percent who were in favor.

It's All Politics

Federal Aid Comprised Record Part Of Americans' 2010 Incomes

April 26, 2011 • Federal aid provided a record amount of the personal income Americans received in 2010, indicating how widespread the support for such spending is and how difficult politically it will be to reduce such outlays.

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