Gannett paid CEO Dubow $9.4 million in 2010 – double his 2009 pay

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Craig Dubow‘s pay included a $1.75 million all-cash bonus, reports Jim Hopkins. Chief operating officer Gracia Martore was paid $8.2 million, with a cash bonus of $1.25 million. The bonuses were awarded partly on the basis of cost-cutting that included layoffs, unpaid furloughs and other austerity measures, according to a shareholders proxy report filed on Thursday. || Dubow would get $22.5 million if he quit right now. || Reuters: Gannett sees a decline in first quarter publishing and TV revenue.

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The proxy report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission disclosed pay for GCI’s six highest earners. The other four were:

* Chief Financal Officer Paul Saleh: $2.9 million; includes a $225,000 bonus, after joining GCI last November.
* U.S. newspapers president Bob Dickey: $3.4 million, including $600,000 bonus. (His total 2009 pay: $1.9 million.)
* USA Today Publisher Dave Hunke: $2.5 million, including $375,000 bonus. (Total 2009: $1.9 million.)
* Broadcasting President Dave Lougee: $2.2 million, including $450,000 bonus. (Total 2009: $1.3 million.)

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  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JSUNTE67TUHS36QAOVMR4LC5HA Pink

    This is DISGUSTING. I have lost ALL respect for Gannett and the Washington Post, whose leader also raked in more money through layoffs and bad performance. I honestly do not care about newspapers anymore. I am done hoping and praying. This upsets me so much because good people lost their jobs without any compensation or help finding a new job. They lost their health insurance. They lost so much so some fatcat bums could double their money? GAnnett lays off people so the top folks could get big bonuses? How is this right, ethical or even believable? Is this a misprint?

  • Anonymous

    gannett = dispicable, shameless, indefensable, pathetic. when the upper eschelon of media companies do things like this, they forever deny themselves the moral right to criticize any-frigging-body for any-frigging-thing. gannett should at least have the integrity to abandon the self-promoted illusion that it stands for anything in the journalism world — other than being just another corproate example of rank greed.

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