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The extent of the job cuts announced Thursday inside the newsroom of The Des Moines Register are becoming more clear, with more names emerging along with news that the paper has shuttered its Iowa City bureau.

The Des Moines Register announced Thursday afternoon that it was laying off 36 employees, or 6 percent of the company’s workforce.
Sources inside the Register tell the Iowa Independent the newsroom layoffs include director of photography Don Tormey, news editor Suzanne Behnke, designer Scott Lester, features writer Dawn Sagario, writer Mary Challender and writer Kathy Hickman. [...]

Employees at “The Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon” are expected to find out today the extent of job cuts announced earlier this month by parent company Gannet Co. Inc.

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.