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Quarterly Financial Data (Unaudited) (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Sep. 27, 2015

Quarterly Financial Information Disclosure [Abstract]

Schedule of Quarterly Financial Information [Table Text Block]

	Quarter Ended
(Thousands of Dollars, Except Per Common Share Data)	December			March			June			September
2015
Operating revenue	177,210			156,557			158,677			156,099
Net income	10,007			2,042			2,135			10,134
Income attributable to Lee Enterprises, Incorporated	9,753			1,800			1,882			9,881
Earnings per common share:
Basic	0.19			0.03			0.04			0.18
Diluted	0.18			0.03			0.03			0.18
2014
Operating revenue	178,379			155,118			164,207			163,173
Net income	12,102			1,705			(9,511	)		3,375
Income attributable to Lee Enterprises, Incorporated	11,893			1,486			(9,746	)		3,162
Earnings (loss) per common share:
Basic	0.23			0.03			(0.19	)		0.06
Diluted	0.22			0.03			(0.19	)		0.06

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Tabular disclosure of the quarterly financial data in the annual financial statements. The disclosure includes financial information for each fiscal quarter for the current and previous year, including revenues, gross profit, income (loss) before extraordinary items and cumulative effect of a change in accounting principle and earnings per share data.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 270
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (a)-(j)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=51825399&loc=d3e1280-108306

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