Gannett counting on citizens to make them happy again

Gannett Co., the nation's largest newspaper chain, plans to create stories with information from bloggers, people who post in Internet discussion groups and other non-journalists in hopes of winning readers from the Internet, television and other news sources, officials with the company said. Gannett, which operates 90 newspapers, including the nation's largest, USA Today, is hoping "citizen journalism" will reverse the company's part of an industrywide trend of declining circulation and advertising revenues, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. Circ must be in serious trouble for a newspaper publisher to lean on bloggers for stuff to print in their newspapers. Gannett enlists citizen journalists [AP]