Mediagazer: USA Today announces ‘two big changes’ (Mackenzie Weinger/Politico)

6:00 PM ET, March 26, 2013

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Mackenzie Weinger / Politico:

USA Today announces ‘two big changes’ — USA Today is making “big changes” by putting the cover story in the newspaper “on hiatus” and keeping story jumps to a “bare minimum, if at all,” editor in chief Dave Callaway announced to staffers in a memo on Tuesday.

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