Gannett Co., Inc. is a major American mass media holding company. Founded by Frank Gannett in 1906 and formally incorporated in 1923, the company is headquartered in New York, New York. Gannett is a publicly traded company that, as of November 2025, trades under the name USA Today Co. with the ticker symbol TDAY. As of early 2026, the company had a market capitalization of approximately $1.12 billion and reported trailing twelve-month revenue of around $2.3 billion. Gannett employs approximately 11,200 people.
Gannett is the largest newspaper publisher in the United States by circulation. Its flagship publication is the national newspaper USA Today. The company also operates the USA TODAY Network, which includes over 200 local daily and weekly newspapers across 43 states, such as the Detroit Free Press and The Des Moines Register. In addition to its print publications, Gannett has a significant digital presence through its news websites and digital marketing services. Through its subsidiary, Newsquest, Gannett is also a major newspaper publisher in the United Kingdom.
The provided data shows Gannett as a defendant in one patent case, with no record of it acting as a plaintiff. This defensive posture is typical of large operating companies that are targeted by patent assertion entities. The single tracked case, I/P Engine, Inc. v. AOL, Inc. et al., was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, a common venue for patent litigation.
The 2011 lawsuit was initiated by I/P Engine, Inc., a subsidiary of Vringo, Inc., which focused on monetizing intellectual property. The case involved patents related to methods for filtering internet search results, alleging that the advertising systems of co-defendants like AOL and Google infringed by using both content-based and collaborative filtering. While a jury initially found in favor of I/P Engine, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit later reversed the verdict, declaring the patents invalid as obvious.