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Earnings per Common Share (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Mar. 26, 2017
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 26 2017 |  | March 27 2016 |  | March 26 2017 |  | March 27 2016 |
Income attributable to Lee Enterprises, Incorporated: | 6,128 |  | 19,228 |  | 18,301 |  | 30,465 |
Weighted average common shares | 56,607 |  | 55,610 |  | 56,268 |  | 55,231 |
Less weighted average restricted Common Stock | (2,552 | ) | (2,434 | ) | (2,479 | ) | (2,073 | )
Basic average common shares | 54,055 |  | 53,176 |  | 53,789 |  | 53,158 |
Dilutive stock options and restricted Common Stock | 1,415 |  | 575 |  | 1,631 |  | 619 |
Diluted average common shares | 55,470 |  | 53,751 |  | 55,420 |  | 53,777 |
Earnings per common share: |  |  |  |
Basic | 0.11 |  | 0.36 |  | 0.34 |  | 0.57 |
Diluted | 0.11 |  | 0.36 |  | 0.33 |  | 0.57 |

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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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