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Register job cuts expected Thursday

By Jason Hancock 7/9/09

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 mandates second round of furloughs

By Jason Hancock 3/23/09

Gannett Co. Inc, parent company of The Des Moines Register and Iowa City Press-Citizen, announced today that it would institute another round of employee furloughs during the second quarter of 2009.
Sources inside the Register’s newsroom confirmed that they were notified Monday morning, although most said they saw the news coming months ago when the first [...]

More job cuts possible at Gannett in 2009

By Jason Hancock 12/10/08

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 [...]

Iowa City Press-Citizen endorses Loebsack

By T.M. Lindsey 10/27/08

Although the Iowa City Press-Citizen editorial board says Democratic Rep. Dave Loebsack is no Jim Leach, they chose to endorse his candidacy – making the case that it would be wrong for second district voters to again replace a sitting Congressman with an untried challenger.

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