---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-23-023327"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "TDAY"
cik: "0001579684"
company_name: "USA TODAY Co., Inc."
filed_at: "2023-05-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-15T13:18:41.931354+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Gannett eliminates Series A Preferred Stock after expiration of poison pill rights plan

## Summary
- Section 382 Rights Agreement expired by its terms on April 5, 2023.
- Certificate of Elimination filed May 5, 2023, removing Series A Preferred Stock from charter.
- Shares of Series A Preferred resumed status as authorized but unissued preferred stock.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-23-023327
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: TDAY
- cik: 0001579684
- company_name: USA TODAY Co., Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-05-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.03, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579684/000114036123023327/0001140361-23-023327-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579684/000114036123023327/brhc20052508_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-23-023327.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  USA TODAY Co., Inc.: Eliminated Series A Junior Participating Preferred Stock from the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation via Certificate of Elimination (effective 2023-05-05).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2023-05-05
  source text: the Company filed a Certificate of Elimination with the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on May 5, 2023, which, effective upon filing, eliminated the Series A Preferred Stock from the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579684/000114036123023327/0001140361-23-023327-index.htm

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