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Earnings per Common Share (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Jun. 29, 2014
Earnings Per Share [Abstract] |
Schedule of Earnings Per Share, Basic and Diluted [Table Text Block] | The following table sets forth the computation of basic and diluted earnings (loss) per common share:
|  | 13 Weeks Ended |  | 39 Weeks Ended |
| (Thousands of Dollars and Shares, Except Per Share Data) | June 29 2014 |  | June 30 2013 |  | June 29 2014 |  | June 30 2013 |
| Income (loss) attributable to Lee Enterprises, Incorporated: |  |  |  |
| Continuing operations | (9,746 | ) | 1,795 |  | 3,632 |  | 11,619 |
| Discontinued operations | — |  | — |  | — |  | (1,247 | )
|  | (9,746 | ) | 1,795 |  | 3,632 |  | 10,372 |
| Weighted average common shares | 53,627 |  | 52,325 |  | 53,342 |  | 52,305 |
| Less weighted average restricted Common Stock | 1,283 |  | 500 |  | 1,126 |  | 500 |
| Basic average common shares | 52,344 |  | 51,825 |  | 52,216 |  | 51,805 |
| Dilutive stock options, Warrants and restricted Common Stock | — |  | 213 |  | 1,439 |  | 107 |
| Diluted average common shares | 52,344 |  | 52,038 |  | 53,655 |  | 51,912 |
| Earnings (loss) per common share: |  |  |  |
| Basic: |  |  |  |
| Continuing operations | (0.19 | ) | 0.03 |  | 0.07 |  | 0.22 |
| Discontinued operations | — |  | — |  | — |  | (0.02 | )
|  | (0.19 | ) | 0.03 |  | 0.07 |  | 0.20 |
| Diluted: |  |  |  |
| Continuing operations | (0.19 | ) | 0.03 |  | 0.07 |  | 0.22 |
| Discontinued operations | — |  | — |  | — |  | (0.02 | )
|  | (0.19 | ) | 0.03 |  | 0.07 |  | 0.20 |

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of an entity's basic and diluted earnings per share calculations, including a reconciliation of numerators and denominators of the basic and diluted per-share computations for income from continuing operations. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 260 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6371337&loc=d3e3550-109257 + Details
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