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                     U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                                     FORM 4

                  STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP

    Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
       Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or
               Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

[  ] Check this box if no longer subject of Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5
     obligations may continue. See Instruction 1(b).

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*

Arnelle                               H.                Jesse
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   (Last)                           (First)             (Middle)

Gannett Co., Inc.               7950 Jones Branch Drive
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                                    (Street)

McLean                                  Virginia                22107
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   (City)                           (State)              (Zip)


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2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol


Gannett Co., Inc. ("GCI")
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3. IRS or Social Security Number of Reporting Person (Voluntary)


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4. Statement for Month/Day/Year

October 2, 2002
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5. If Amendment, Date of Original (Month/Day/Year)

October 9, 2002
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6. Relationship of Reporting Person to Issuer
   (Check all applicable)

   [ X ]   Director                             [   ]   10% Owner
   [   ]   Officer (give title below)           [   ]   Other (specify below)



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7. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check applicable line)

   [ X] Form filed by one Reporting Person
   [  ] Form filed by more than one Reporting Person


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           Table I -- Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of,
                             or Beneficially Owned
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                                                                                                                6.
                                                                 4.                              5.             Owner-
                                                                 Securities Acquired (A) or      Amount of      ship
                                                    3.           Disposed of (D)                 Securities     Form:     7.
                                      2.A           Transaction  (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)             Beneficially   Direct    Nature of
                        2.            Deemed        Code         ------------------------------- Owned at End   (D) or    Indirect
1.                      Transaction   Execution     (Instr. 8)                   (A)             of Month       Indirect  Beneficial
Title of Security       Date          Date, if any  ------------     Amount      or     Price    (Instr. 3      (I)       Ownership
(Instr. 3)              (mm/dd/yy)    (mm/dd/yy)     Code     V                  (D)             and 4)         (Instr.4) (Instr. 4)
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Common Stock                                                                                     1,036          D
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Common Stock            09/26/02      10/01/02       P               8.507       A      $74.46   see below      I         (1)
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Common Stock            10/02/02      10/07/02       P               4.598       A      $74.31   1,436.695      I         (1)
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* If the Form is filed by more than one Reporting Person, see Instruction
  4(b)(v).

Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially
          owned directly or indirectly.


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FORM 4 (continued)

Table II -- Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
         (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)

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                                                                                                                    10.
                                                                                                          9.        Owner-
                                                                                                          Number    ship
                                                                                                          of        Form
            2.                                                                                            Deriv-    of
            Conver-                            5.                              7.                         ative     Deriv-   11.
            sion                               Number of                       Title and Amount           Secur-    ative    Nature
            or               3A.               Derivative    6.                of Underlying     8.       ities     Secur-   of
            Exer-            Deemed   4.       Securities    Date              Securities        Price    Bene-     ity:     In-
            cise     3.      Execut   Trans-   Acquired (A)  Exercisable and   (Instr. 3 and 4)  of       ficially  Direct   direct
            Price    Trans-  ion      action   or Disposed   Expiration Date   ----------------  Deriv-   Owned     (D) or   Bene-
1.          of       action  Date,    Code     of(D)         (Month/Day/Year)            Amount  ative    at End    In-      ficial
Title of    Deriv-   Date    if any   (Instr.  (Instr. 3,    ----------------            or      Secur-   of        direct   Owner-
Derivative  ative    (Month/ (Month/  8)       4 and 5)      Date     Expira-            Number  ity      Month     (I)      ship
Security    Secur-   Day/    Day/     ------   ------------  Exer-    tion               of      (Instr.  (Instr.   (Instr.  (Instr.
(Instr. 3)  ity      Year)   Year)    Code V    (A)   (D)    cisable  Date     Title     Shares  5)       4)        4)       4)
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Explanation of Responses:
(1) Held by the trustee of the Company's Deferred Compensation Plan, The
Northern Trust Company.


/s/Thomas L. Chapple, Attorney-in-fact                     10/22/02
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      **Signature of Reporting Person                             Date


**     Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal
       Criminal Violations.

       See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).

Note:  File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed.
       If space provided is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedures.


       Alternatively,   this  Form  is  permitted  to  be  submitted  to  the
       Commission in electronic  format at the option of the reporting person
       pursuant to rule 101(b)(4) of Regulation S-T.



                                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, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 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
Form 3, 4, or 5 and timely file such form with the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; 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 3, 4, and 5 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 9th day of October, 2002.

/s/H. Jesse  Arnelle                      WITNESS: Jenny Albosta
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Signature                                          Signature

H. Jesse  Arnelle                                  Jenny Albosta
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Print Name                                         Print Name

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