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MCLEAN, Va., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- USA TODAY and Tribune Media Services (TMS) today announced plans to distribute a new weekly edition of USA TODAY outside the United States. USA TODAY will produce the eight-page, English-language, broadsheet section and TMS, the content-licensing unit of Tribune Company, will syndicate it to publishers abroad for use as a supplement to their daily newspapers. The first issue of the new publication will be delivered to client newspapers on Thursday, October 18. Participating publishers will be supplied with electronic files of each week's edition, and they will print the product on their own presses. Among the charter customers for the new supplement are publishers in Israel, Armenia, Mexico, Argentina and Ecuador. Content for use in the new publication will be drawn from daily editions of USA TODAY published during the previous five days. Rather than recapping the news of the week, the new publication will feature the enterprise articles, trend stories, news analyses and profiles for which USA TODAY is best known. "We're pleased to be able to bring USA TODAY's reporting to new markets and an expanded readership. TMS is the ideal partner to help us build audience and extend our reach," said Ken Paulson, editor and senior vice-president for news for USA TODAY. "This is a natural extension of the longstanding relationship between USA TODAY and TMS," said David D. Williams, president and CEO of Tribune Media Services. "For many years, we have syndicated stories and images from the newspaper to publishers throughout the world." "This new initiative," Williams continued, "will provide foreign publishers with a way to address the information needs of expatriates and others in their markets seeking an American perspective on world affairs." TMS began syndicating content from USA TODAY to publishers outside the U.S. in 1992. Following the launch of the new weekly version of the newspaper, USA TODAY will continue distribution of the daily international edition of the newspaper through newsstands and hotels in select markets around the world. USA TODAY, the nation's top-selling newspaper, celebrated its 25th anniversary on September 15, 2007. It is published via satellite at 35 locations in the USA and at four sites abroad. With a total average daily circulation of 2.3 million, USA TODAY is available worldwide. USA TODAY is published by Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE:GCI). The USA TODAY brand also includes: USATODAY.com, an award-winning news and information Web site that is updated 24 hours per day; USA TODAY Sports Weekly, a magazine for enthusiasts of college and professional football and baseball; USA TODAY Mobile, offering up-to-the minute news and information on a variety of mobile platforms and devices; and USA TODAY LIVE, the television arm of the USA TODAY brand that brings the spirit and quality of the newspaper to television. Tribune Media Services (TMS) is a leading provider of information and entertainment products for print, electronic and on-air media in the U.S. and abroad. It distributes TV and movie listings and related editorial content under the TMS and Zap2it brands; syndicates comics, editorial cartoons, feature articles and opinion columns; creates and distributes a variety of online information products; licenses editorial content from national periodicals; and manages national advertising networks. TMS also markets news, features, information graphics and multimedia content to media clients around the world through the McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. Headquartered in Chicago, with offices in New York, Glens Falls, N.Y., Dallas, Houston, Milwaukee, Amsterdam, London and Hong Kong, TMS is a subsidiary of Tribune Company (NYSE:TRB). For more information about TMS and its products and services, visit http://www.tms.tribune.com/. DATASOURCE: USA TODAY CONTACT: Heidi Zimmerman, VP/News & Features, USA TODAY, +1-703-854-5304, ; or John Twohey, Director/Communications, Tribune Media Services, +1-312-222-4339, Web Site: http://www.usatoday.com/

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