Read a copy of USA Today lately? A lot has changed since the paper first hit the newsstands in 1982. In those days, its video-age "fast format" and relentless optimism (typified by the plane-crash ...

It isn’t often that the President of the United States comes to your birthday party and disses you, but that’s pretty much what happened at USA Today’s fifth anniversary in September 1987. Founder Al ...

The Making of McPaper: The Inside Story of USA Today, by Peter S. Prichard (St. Martin`s, $5.95). Get this: USA Today`s Voices Across America feature serves as a kind of nationwide man-on-street photo ...

They called it McPaper, the nation’s newsletter, talked about it winning a prize for Best Investigative Paragraph. What it turned out to be was a new template for the newspaper industry in both style ...

Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear, when mainstream journalistic standards were such that people thought the advent of USA Today threatened civilization. Twenty years ago this ...

There are few things better in sports than a good list. We’re just not convinced the list put out last week by USA Today — the 25 greatest sport stories of the past quarter-century — was that good.