Gannett Co. CEO Craig Dubow told a Wall Street media conference that his company, which owns The Des Moines Register and Iowa City Press-Citizen, is prepared to cut even more newspaper jobs in 2009, according to Jim Hopkins at Gannett Blog.

Dubow made the comments at the UBS Investment Bank 36th Annual Global Media Conference in New York City. Any future layoffs would be determined by the health of the economy next year.

“We are always going to size to the revenue that is there,” Dubow said, adding that decisions will be made market-by-market. “We’re going to have to see where and how the economy reacts next year.”

The company recently cut 10 percent from its newspaper payroll, including 82 jobs in Iowa.