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Gannett Elects Board Members, Declares Dividend, Approves Say on Pay

Wednesday 04. May 2011 - Shareholders of Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI) today re-elected Chairman and CEO Craig A. Dubow, John E. Cody, Howard D. Elias, Arthur H. Harper, John Jeffry Louis, Marjorie Magner, Scott K. McCune, Duncan M. McFarland and Neal Shapiro to the Board of Directors at the annual meeting held at the company’s headquarters.

The directors were elected to serve one-year terms ending at Gannett’s annual meeting in 2012. Gannett’s shareholders also ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young as the company’s independent accounting firm for the 2011 fiscal year, approved an advisory resolution on the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers reported in the Company’s 2011 proxy statement and voted to hold future advisory votes on the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers every year.
The Board of Directors also declared a regular quarterly dividend of 4 cents per share, payable on July 1, 2011, to shareholders of record on June 3, 2011.