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Deferred Compensation Plan Assets, Fair Value Disclosure

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Fair Value Disclosure, Number of Investments

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Stockholders' Equity Note, Spinoff, Shares Held by Former Parent, Percent

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Assets, usually stocks, bonds, and other investments, that have been segregated and restricted (usually in a trust) to provide benefits, at their fair value as of the measurement date. Plan assets include amounts contributed by the employer (and by employees for a contributory plan) and amounts earned from investing the contributions, less benefits paid. If a plan has liabilities other than for benefits, those non-benefit obligations may be considered as reductions of plan assets.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Describes the terms and conditions for redemption of the entity's investment, or portion thereof (for example, quarterly redemption with 60 days notice), for each of those certain investments for which net asset value per share is calculated (including by unit, membership interest, or other equity (ownership interest) unit measure) (alternative investments), by major category.

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Notice period the entity is required to deliver before it can redeem an investment calculated using net asset value per share, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days. Includes, but is not limited to, investments calculated by per unit, per membership interest, other equity or ownership interest and alternative investments.

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Estimate remaining period the underlying assets are expected to be liquidated by the investees for investments for which net asset value per share is calculated (including by unit, membership interest, or other ownership interest unit measure), in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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The percentage of the total value of investments that cannot be redeemed because of a redemption restriction as of the statement of financial position date.

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The amount of unfunded commitments for which the entity is obligated, to those certain investments for which net asset value per share is calculated (including by unit, membership interest, or other equity (ownership interest) unit measure) (alternative investments).

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Amount of loss from the write-down of an asset representing the future economic benefits arising from other assets acquired in a business combination that are not individually identified and separately recognized.

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The fair value amount of long-term debt whether such amount is presented as a separate caption or as a parenthetical disclosure. Additionally, this element may be used in connection with the fair value disclosures required in the footnote disclosures to the financial statements. The element may be used in both the balance sheet and disclosure in the same submission.

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Fair value measurement - Narrative (Detail) $ in Thousands	12 Months Ended
Fair value measurement - Narrative (Detail) $ in Thousands	Dec. 31, 2015 USD ($) investment	Dec. 28, 2014 USD ($)	Dec. 29, 2013 USD ($)	Jun. 29, 2015
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Deferred compensation investments	$ 77,199	$ 65,950
Available for sale investment in Gannett's outstanding shares (as a percent of shares outstanding)				1.50%
Contingent consideration payable		8,936
Non-cash goodwill impairment charge	8,000	30,271	$ 8,400
Future funding commitments	$ 1,000	1,500
Hedge funds redemption period	60 days
Hedge funds redemption potential holdback percentage	5.00%
Hedge funds redemption description	Shares in the hedge funds are generally redeemable twice a year or on the last business day of each quarter with at least 60 days written notice subject to potential 5% holdback. There are no unfunded commitments related to the hedge funds.
Fair Value of Plan Assets	$ 400,193	387,626
Minimum
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Liquidation period of underlying assets of partnership investments, low estimate (in years)	8 years
Maximum
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Liquidation period of underlying assets of partnership investments, low estimate (in years)	10 years
Level 1
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Deferred compensation investments	$ 77,199	65,950
Contingent consideration payable		0
Fair Value of Plan Assets	66,048	71,567
Level 2
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Deferred compensation investments	0	0
Contingent consideration payable		0
Fair value of total long-term debt	4,310,000	4,650,000
Fair Value of Plan Assets	310,491	296,947
Level 3
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Deferred compensation investments	0	0
Contingent consideration payable		8,936
Fair Value of Plan Assets	$ 23,654	$ 19,112
Available-for-sale Securities \| Level 1
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Available for sale investment in Gannett's outstanding shares (as a percent of shares outstanding)	1.50%
Fixed Income Funds
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Number of investments held in collective trusts \| investment	15
Equity Funds
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Number of investments held in collective trusts \| investment	11