News Leader Media is an award-winning media and marketing organization located in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. The operation includes The News Leader print product and newsleader.com. The News Leader parent company is Gannett, based in McLean, Va. Gannett is a publicly traded company that owns more than 80 daily publications and a host of non-daily and digital properties all designed to deliver information and marketing messages to targeted audiences on a variety of platforms.