"Here on the west coast of America, where millions upon millions of dollars have been spent promoting Beckham as the superstar saviour of soccer, the decision to omit him from the England squad was recorded by a single paragraph in USA Today."

"Gannett Co. said Monday it joined with Tribune Co. to publish and syndicate a weekly edition of USA Today outside the United States. … the eight-page broadsheet called USA Today Abroad … will contain primarily feature stories from the previous week’

"Gannett, owner of 84 daily newspapers and 23 TV stations, announced Friday the launch of 100 [WAP] mobile sites of breaking news, sports, weather and other local information … produced by Gannett Information Centers."

A look at the redesigns of three-recently relaunched news web sites: AOL, CNN and USA Today.

"USA Today … will share news, blogs and other content related to the 2008 U.S. presidential election with ABC News."

Editors at USAToday.com, LATimes.com and WashingtonPost.com explain recent redesigns.

Dave Weinberger wonders where the thumbs down button is on USA Today’s site: "We want to be able to say to the Britney or Justin or We-Should-Teach-Our-Students-Judo article "No no no no no no no no."