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Handwritten copy (with deletions crossed out and additions added) of the first few sentence of Jefferson

USA Today at 40

Posted by: Ryan Reft

Forty years ago, Allen Neuharth and Gannett launched USA Today, but a year before its publication, the newspaper sent out prototypes to media figures, politicians, and selected readers whose collective responses provide a window into the status of the print media of 1981 and its future over the next four decades.