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More job cuts possible at Gannett in 2009

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 [...]

Press-Citizen announces 11 layoffs, Iowa total stands at 82 job losses

The Iowa City Press-Citizen has cut six full-time and five part-time workers, the paper announced Thursday.
The layoffs are in several departments including advertising, editorial, production, circulation and finance.

More job cuts at The Des Moines Register

In a memo to employees sent earlier today, Gannett Co. (parent company of The Des Moines Register) announced plans to lay off 10 percent of its newspaper employees, or about 3,000 workers, by early December.
Sources inside the Register’s newsroom confirmed to the Iowa Independent that the layoffs will affect “The Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon,” although [...]

Gannett expands stake in online job board

It’s newspaper may be laying off employees all over the country, but Gannett Co., parent company of The Des Moines Register and the Iowa City Press-Citizen, is still trying to expand.
The company, which owns 85 daily and 900 non-daily newspapers, as well as 23 television stations, announced that it has purchased another 10 percent stake [...]

‘Dark cloud’ hangs over The Register

With friends and colleagues leaving, many inside the newsroom of “The Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon” are feeling the strain, and morale has sunk to what some say is an all-time low.