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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 144

NOTICE OF PROPOSED SALE OF SECURITIES
PURSUANT TO RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

ATTENTION: Transmit for filing 3 copies of this form concurrently with either placing an order with a broker to execute sale or executing a sale directly with a market maker.

1(a) NAME OF ISSUER(Please type or print) (b) IRS IDENT. NO. (c)  S.E.C. FILE NO.  
Gannett Co., Inc. 16-0442930 1-6961  
1(d)  ADDRESS OF ISSUER       STREET                         CITY                   STATE             ZIP CODE (e) TELEPHONE NO.
7950 Jones Branch Drive                        McLean            VA                22107 AREA CODE NUMBER
(703) 854-6000
2(a) NAME OF PERSON FOR WHOSE ACCOUNT
         THE SECURITIES ARE TO BE SOLD		 (b) IRS IDENT. NO. (c) RELATIONSHIP TO
      ISSUER		 (d) ADDRESS  STREET               CITY   STATE   ZIP CODE
Thomas L. Chapple   officer Gannett Co., Inc.
7950 Jones Branch Drive McLean VA 22107

INSTRUCTION: The person filing this notice should contact the issuer to obtain the I.R.S. Identification Number and the S.E.C. File Number.

3(a) (b) SEC USE ONLY (c) (d) (e) (f) (g)
Title of the
Class of
Securities
To Be Sold		 Name and Address of Each Broker Through Whom the Securities are to be Offered or Each Market Maker who is Acquiring the Securities Broker-Dealer
File Number		 Number of Shares
or Other Units
To Be Sold
(See instr. 3(c))		 Aggregate
Market
Value
(See instr. 3(d))		 Number of Shares
or Other Units
Outstanding
(See instr. 3(e))		 Approximate
Date of Sale
(See instr. 3(f))
(MO. DAY YR.)		 Name of Each
Securities
Exchange
(See instr. 3(g))
Common Stock Tony Fagella
Deutsche Bank Alex Brown
280 Park Avenue, 3E
New York, NY 10017		   19,200 $1,433,280 268,234,922 On or after 4/16/03 NYSE
        
        

INSTRUCTIONS:

1.  (a) Name of Issuer
     (b) Issuer's I.R.S. Identification Number
     (c) Issuer's SEC file number, if any
     (d) Issuer's address, including zip code
     (e) Issuer's telephone number, including area code
2.  (a) Name of person for whose account the securities are to be sold
     (b) Such person's I.R.S. identification number, if such person is an
          entity
     (c) Such person's relationship to the Issuer(e.g., officer, director,
          10% stockholder or member of immediate family of any of the
          foregoing)
     (d) Such person’s address, including zip code		 3.  (a) Title of the class of securities to be sold
     (b) Name and address of each broker through whom the securities are intended to be sold
     (c) Number of shares or other units to be sold (if debt securities, give the aggregate face amount)
     (d) Aggregate market value of the securities to be sold as of a specified date within 10 days
          prior to filing of this notice
     (e) Number of shares or other units of the class outstanding, or if debt securities the face
          amount thereof outstanding, as shown by the most recent report or statement published by
          the issuer
     (f) Approximate date on which the securities will be sold
     (g) Name of each securities exchange, if any, on which the securities are intended to be sold

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TABLE I - SECURITIES TO BE SOLD
Furnish the following information with respect to the acquisition of securities to be sold and with respect to the payment of all or any part of the purchase price or other consideration therefor:

Title of
the Class		 Date you
Acquired		 Nature of Acquisition Transaction Name of Person from Whom Acquired
(If gift, also give date donor acquired)		 Amount of
Securities Acquired		 Date of
Payment		 Nature of Payment
Common Stock On or after 4/16/03 Stock Option Exercise Gannett Co., Inc. 19,200 Upon exercise on or after 4/16/03 Cash or stock
INSTRUCTIONS: 1. If the securities were purchased and full payment therefor was not made in cash at the time of purchase, explain in the table or in a note thereto the nature of the consideration given. If the consideration consisted of any note or other obligation, or if payment was made in installments describe the arrangement and state when the note or other obligation was discharged in full or the last installment paid. 2. If within two years after the acquisition of the securities the person for whose account they are to be sold had any short positions, put or other option to dispose of securities referred to in paragraph (d)(3) of Rule 144, furnish full information with respect thereto.

TABLE II - SECURITIES SOLD DURING THE PAST 3 MONTHS

Furnish the following information as to all securities of the issuer sold during the past 3 months by the person for whose account the securities are to be sold.

Name and Address of Seller Title of Securities Sold Date of Sale Amount of
Securities Sold		 Gross Proceeds
         
REMARKS:
INSTRUCTIONS: ATTENTION:
See the definition of "person" in paragraph (a) of Rule 144. Information is to be given not only as to the person for whose account the securities are to be sold but also as to all other persons included in that definition. In addition, information shall be given as to sales by all persons whose sales are required by paragraph (e) of Rule 144 to be aggregated with sales for the account of the person filing this notice. The person for whose account the securities to which this notice relates are to be sold hereby represents by signing this notice that he does not know any material adverse information in regard to the current and prospective operations of the Issuer of the securities to be sold which has not been publicly disclosed.

April 16, 2003

/s/ Thomas L. Chapple

Date of Notice

Signature

This notice shall be signed by the person for whose account the securities are to be sold. At least one copy of the notice shall be mutually signed. Any copies not manually signed shall bear typed or printed signatures.

ATTENTION: Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations (See 18 U.S.C. 1001)
POWER OF ATTORNEY



KNOW ALL BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY CONSTITUTES AND APPOINTS


EACH OF THOMAS L. CHAPPLE, BARBARA W. WALL AND TODD A. MAYMAN, SIGNING SINGLY,


THE UNDERSIGNED'S TRUE AND LAWFUL ATTORNEY-IN-FACT TO:




(1) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity

as an officer and/or director of Gannett Co., Inc. (the "Company"), Forms 3, 4,

5 and 144 in accordance with the Securities laws of the United States and the

rules thereunder;



(2) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which

may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Forms and timely

file such forms with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and

any stock exchange or other authority where such filing is required; and



(3) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the

foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to,

in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being

understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on

behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such

form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may

approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.



The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and

authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,

necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers

herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned

might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or

revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or

such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to

be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein

granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact,

in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming,

nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply

with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.



This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the

undersigned is no longer required to file Forms with respect to the

undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company,

unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the

foregoing attorneys-in-fact.



IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be

executed as of this 1st day of October, 2002.




/s/ Thomas L. Chapple                    WITNESS:/s/ Jennifer L. Albosta
Signature                                        Jennifer L. Albosta


Thomas L. Chapple____
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