Obituaries in the News
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSFiled at 9:36 p.m. ET
Paul Flynn
FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) -- Paul Flynn, a former president of USA Today and publisher of two Florida newspapers, died Thursday [Sept. 18, 2008]. He was 73.
Flynn died at a hospice in Fort Myers a day after his 73rd birthday, according to a statement from Gannett Co., which owns USA Today, and the two Florida papers.
Flynn was a member of the start-up team for USA Today and was named executive vice president in 1983. He became the paper's president the following year.
He was president and publisher of The News-Press in Fort Myers from 1977 to 1983. He served as publisher of the Pensacola News Journal in the Florida Panhandle from 1984 to 1987. Flynn's position at USA Today overlapped his duties at The News-Press and Pensacola News Journal.
Flynn joined the Gannett Co. in 1966 as assistant director of public service for the company's daily newspapers in Rochester, N.Y. He later held advertising and publishing positions with Gannett newspapers in West Virginia and New York before moving to Florida in 1977.
He retired from Gannett in 1990.
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