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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. Inc., parent company of The Des Moines Register, will eliminate between 1,000 and 2,000 jobs in the coming weeks, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal.

Rumors are swirling about the possibility of another round of layoffs at Gannett Co. Inc., parent company of The Des Moines Register.
Jim Hopkins, who follows the company at GannettBlog, is reporting that two sources have confirmed the company’s principal executive and chief financial officer has ordered across-the-board layoffs. The layoffs are expected to take place [...]

Shaw Newspapers, which owns the Newton Daily News, Creston News Advertiser and Osceola Sentinel-Tribune along with nine papers in northwest Illinois, is suing a blogger for defamatory comments he posted about the company’s business practices.
On his blog, McHenry County, Illinois-resident Cal Skinner Jr. alleged that Shaw’s largest newspaper, The Northwest Herald, received a multimillion dollar-loan [...]

Controversial Christian radio host Steve Deace and conservative blogger Craig Robinson are teaming up to test the field of potential candidates to take on Gov. Chet Culver in 2010.

“The people like a good gladiator bout from time to time,” said Chris Bradshaw of WOW-FM. “But my goal, the Holy Grail that I shoot for every day, is ‘I never agree with you, but…’ If I can get that, my day is made.”

The Cedar Rapids Gazette has been awarded the prestigious Sigma Delta Chi Award for deadline reporting for its coverage of the floods of 2008.
The award, given out annually by the Society of Professional Journalists for excellence in journalism, will be presented during the SPJ Convention and National Journalism Conference August 27-30 in Indianapolis, Ind.
On his [...]

Former Des Moines Register columnist and editor Richard Doak wrote an op-ed in Sunday’s paper that bemoans the slow decline of traditional print newspapers, arguing that other types of news outlets will never be an adequate substitute:
The world has become saturated with new media, but it is the oldest of the old media, newspapers, that [...]

Des Moines Christian radio host Steve Deace is featured prominently in a new video and corresponding Web site produced by American Right to Life Action (ARTL) attacking right-wing pundit Ann Coulter for supporting 2008 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

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 [...]