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Earnings per Common Share (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Mar. 29, 2015
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 per common share:
|  | 13 Weeks Ended |  | 26 Weeks Ended |
| (Thousands of Dollars and Shares, Except Per Share Data) | March 29 2015 |  | March 30 2014 |  | March 29 2015 |  | March 30 2014 |
| Income attributable to Lee Enterprises, Incorporated: | 1,800 |  | 1,486 |  | 11,553 |  | 13,378 |
| Weighted average common shares | 54,506 |  | 53,519 |  | 54,206 |  | 53,199 |
| Less weighted average restricted Common Stock | (2,012 | ) | (1,296 | ) | (1,724 | ) | (1,048 | )
| Basic average common shares | 52,494 |  | 52,223 |  | 52,482 |  | 52,151 |
| Dilutive stock options and restricted Common Stock | 1,381 |  | 1,575 |  | 1,434 |  | 1,390 |
| Diluted average common shares | 53,875 |  | 53,798 |  | 53,916 |  | 53,541 |
| Earnings per common share: |  |  |  |
| Basic | 0.03 |  | 0.03 |  | 0.22 |  | 0.26 |
| Diluted | 0.03 |  | 0.03 |  | 0.21 |  | 0.25 |

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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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