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Gannett Co. Inc, publisher of The Des Moines Register and Iowa City Press-Citizen, announced Friday its preliminary net income fell to $158 million, or 69 cents per share, in the fourth quarter, down 36 percent from a year ago, as advertising revenue continues to fall.

In yet another move to cut costs at the ailing media giant, Gannett Co. Inc. has ordered all staffers to take a one-week unpaid forlough at some point in the first quarter to save money and prevent more immediate job cuts.
The Des Moines Register, which is owned by Gannett, reported on its Web site that [...]

It’s a sad chapter that local historians will be loath to record. Several newspapers that have served east-central Iowa communities since the late 1800s are coming to an end.
Marengo Publishing Corp. and Poweshiek Publishing, companies under Gannett’s large umbrella, have published three weekly advertisers, seven weekly newspapers and a monthly magazine for several years. The [...]

Steve Dinnen, Jeff Bash, Mike Malloy and Carl Benskin have joined the list of Des Moines Register employees whose jobs have been eliminated, bringing the total thus far to seven.

Sources inside The Des Moines Register have confirmed, and the local business journal has reported, that farm editor Jerry Perkins and features writer Ken Fuson have asked for and received buyouts, becoming the first of what will be 15 jobs to be eliminated today from within the paper’s newsroom.
Sources have also confirmed that Jane Norman, [...]

After a gentle prodding by Jim Hopkins over at The Gannett Blog (not to mention his publication of an internal memo), Gannett Co. Inc., which owns the Des Moines Register, has admitted publicly that it will be cutting 1,000 jobs, including 600 layoffs, across its newspaper operations.