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Register circulation down 13%

By Jason Hancock 10/26/09

The Des Moines Register lost nearly 18,000 daily subscribers and nearly 15,000 Sunday subscribers during the six-month period ending in September, according to preliminary figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

Register job cuts coming today

By Jason Hancock 8/19/08

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 [...]

Gannett memo gives guidelines for cutting jobs

By Jason Hancock 8/15/08

Jim Romenesko at the Poynter Institute has posted on his blog a memo giving the details to the 1,000 job cuts to be enacted company-wide at Gannett Co. Inc., parent company of The Des Moines Register and Iowa City Press Citizen.
Publishers are instructed to inform their staffs by today of the job cuts at their [...]

Register to cut 26 positions by Wednesday

By Jason Hancock 8/15/08

In a memo to staff today, Laura Hollingsworth, president and publisher of The Des Moines Register, announced that the paper will eliminate 12 full-time positions and three part-time positions, as well as leave 11 vacant jobs unfilled.

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