Register job cuts coming today

Today is the day we’ll find out whose job has been eliminated within The Des Moines Register’s newsroom.

The paper told its employees Friday that it would eliminate 12 full-time and three part-time positions by today after word came down from the paper’s corporate parent, Gannett Co. Inc., that 600 jobs would have to be cut company wide.

Our friend at the Gannett Blog has a running total of where the job cuts are coming, and the numbers are depressing to say the least (as of today):

• Alexandria, La.: 3 of 214 total employees (story link)
• Appleton, Wisc.: 8 of 581
• Asbury Park, N.J.: 50 of 1,492
• Asheville, N.C.: 6 of 250
• Binghamton, N.Y.: 1 of 390
• Brevard, Fla.: 11 of 600
• Bridgewater and East Brunswick, N.J.: 12 of a combined ??? employees
• Bucyrus, Mansfield and Marion — all in Ohio: 9 of a combined 254 employees at the three papers (story link)
• Burlington, Vt.: 6 of 272
• Cherry Hill, N.J.: 35 of ???
• Chillicothe and Lancaster, Ohio; plus other, smaller Ohio publications: 3 of ??? employees (story link)
• Cincinnati: to be determined for 1,143
• Des Moines: 15 of 1,000
• Elmira, N.Y.: 1 of 115 (story link)
• Fond du Lac, Wisc.: 5 of 120
• Fort Collins, Colo.: 4 of 250
• Green Bay, Wisc.: 8 of 376 (story link)
• Greenville, S.C.: 14 of 610
• Hattiesburg, Miss.: 1-2 of 175
• Honolulu: 54 of 697 (announced July 16; story link)
• Indianapolis: 23 of 1,441
• Ithaca, N.Y.: 3 of 130
• Jackson, Miss.: 20 of 490
• Lafayette, Ind.: 2 of 238 (story link)
• Lafayette, La.: 6 of 277
• Lansing, Mich.: 8 of 380 (story link)
• Louisville, Ky.: 15 of 1,100 (story link)
• Montgomery, Ala.: 10 of 375 (story link)
• Morristown, N.J.: 10 of 315
• Mountain Home, Ark.: 3 of 66
• Muncie, Ind.: 2 of 169
• Nashville: 10 of 1,182
• Oshkosh, Wisc.: 2 of 129
• Palm Springs, Calif.: 3 of 350
• Pensacola, Fla.: 4 of 420
• Phoenix: to be determined for 2,650
• Poughkeepsie, N.Y.: 3 of 250
• Rochester, N.Y.: 11??? of 975 (story link)
• St. Cloud, Minn.: 8 of 222 (story link)
• Sheboygan, Wisc.: 1 of 114 (story link)
• Shreveport, La.: 0 of 402
• Sioux Falls, S.D.: 1 of 300
• Springfield, Mo.: 5 of 380
• Tallahassee, Fla.: 8 of ??? (story link)
• Tucson, Ariz.: 2-4 (at the Citizen) of 776 (at the Citizen and the JOA) (story link)
• Visalia, Calif.: 3 of 140
• Westchester, N.Y.: 12 of ??? (story link)
• Wilmington, Del.: 16 of 619

The blog’s author, Jim Hopkins, said the figure for each paper’s total employment is most likely too high, as he culled that information from Gannett’s corporate Web site.