Mr. Curley has been with Gannett since 1969. He worked for Gannett as an editor in Rochester, New York, on the Times-Union newspaper, and in Bridgewater, New Jersey, as editor of The Courier-News and later as publisher. He also was publisher of the New-Journal Newspapers in Wilmington, Delaware. Curley also headed Gannett News Service for six year. During that time GNS won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.

Curley was the first editor of USA TODAY, which began publishing in September, 1982. In April, 1983, he became president of the newspaper division and in March, 1984, became the president and chief operating officer of the company. He became CEO in May, 1986, and chairman in April, 1983.

Before joing Gannett, Mr. Curley worked on newspapers in Easton, Pennsylvania, where he grew up, Asbury Park and Woodbridge in New Jersey, which became Gannett newspapers in 1997, and for The Associated Press in New York and New Jersey.

He is chair of the Board of Trustees of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he received a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science in 1960. He received a Master's Degree in Journalism in 1963, from Columbia University in New York. Mr.Curley is also chair of the Board of Visitors' College of Communications at Penn State, and on the board of The Associated Press.