As a top editor who was both feared and revered at the newspaper for decades, he left a deep imprint as its arbiter of language, taste, tone and ethics.
The national newspaper USA Today, Gannett's flagship paper, was forced to remove almost two dozen stories from its website last week "after an internal audit concluded that the reporter who wrote them misattributed quotes," according to The Washington Post. "And in some cases may have fabricated interviews and sources."