USA Weekend is a national weekend newspaper magazine distributed through more than 800+ newspapers in the United States. It reaches 47 million readers in 22.6 million households every weekend. Awarded for its journalism and design, USA WEEKEND focuses on social issues, entertainment, health, food and travel. The magazine provides Newspaper In Education classroom guides to partner newspapers. Its website, usaweekend.com, provides enhanced content and interactive magazine features. USA Weekend is published by Gannett Co., Inc., an international news and information company. It is a spin-off of USA Today, and its main competitor is Parade. Most Gannett newspapers by default carry USA WEEKEND within their papers.
The publication incorporates Family Weekly, a supplement started in 1953, but considers 1985, the date of Gannett's purchase and re-titling, to be the date of its founding for anniversary purposes.
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