“A leaked memo from USA Today parent company Gannett Co. has revealed that the company recently purchased thousands of iPhone 4S and iPad devices in order to aid its journalists in real-time reporting, video storytelling and social media participation,” AppleInsider reports.

“Gannett Blog, which is not affiliated with the company, published a memo on Wednesday, allegedly from Gannett’s U.S. newspapers division president Bob Dickey, detailing the publisher’s new technology strategy,” AppleInsider reports. “According to the memo, the company “purchased thousands of new devices,” including the iPhone 4S, iPad 2 and netbooks, for its journalists this week.”

MacDailyNews Take: Netbooks? Hope they got them typewriter ribbons and whiteout, too.

AppleInsider reports, “Journalists will also reportedly receive training in early 2012 on how to use the devices in order to maximize the impact of the initiative and enable them to do new things that Dickey ‘can’t even imagine yet.’”

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MacDailyNews Take: Congrats to Gannett employees on t he iPads and iPhones! And, if by “netbooks,” they’re mistakenly referring to MacBook Airs, congrats on those, too.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers "Jax44" and "Dow C." for the heads up.]