The Des Moines Register
Culver, Register continue to wrangle over open records law
Gov. Chet Culver has once again refused a request by The Des Moines Register to turn over documents, this time e-mails surrounding the governor’s response to the unexpected death of a resident at a state-run home for the disabled.
Culver’s office is calling the e-mails “draft documents,” which it says aren’t required to be disclosed under [...]
Register publisher says she’s fighting to protect paper’s ‘heart and soul’
“Everyone you talk to [at the Des Moines Register] is nervous, is scared, is trying to figure out what’s going to happen next, and unfortunately a lot of the economic news we’re getting isn’t very promising,” Hollingsworth said.
Differing media provide differing accounts of political conference
Perception is reality, and a good example of that old adage is a recent teleconference about President-elect Barack Obama’s stimulus plan involving the mayors of Des Moines and Cedar Rapids.
Both The Des Moines Register’s Jason Pulliam and Radio Iowa’s O. Kay Henderson were listening in, but when it came time to write a story, both [...]
It’s official: Duffy has found a new home with Register rival
Shane Goodman, publisher of the Des Moines alternative newsweekly Cityview, announced this week that what was thought to be a one time arrangement for fired Des Moines Register editorial cartoonist Brian Duffy to publish his parting shot at his former employer has become a regular feature in the paper.
Register cartoonist says goodbye… in pages of rival paper
Fired Des Moines Register cartoonist Brian Duffy has published the farewell piece his former employer never gave him a chance to show to the public.
In this week’s issue of the Des Moines alternative newsweekly Cityview, Duffy was given a full page to publish a cartoon of his choice, according to the paper’s editor and publisher [...]
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 [...]
Duffy speaks out on Register layoffs
Fired Des Moines Register cartoonist Brian Duffy is talking to the media about his dismissal from the paper he’s worked at for a quarter century.
Duffy, whose job was one of 71 eliminated last week, spoke with Des Moines NBC affiliate WHO and CBS affiliate KCCI about his departure from the Register.
Despite working for the paper [...]
Des Moines Register changes extend beyond job cuts
The 56 job cuts announced Wednesday are not the only changes taking place at “The Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon.”
The Des Moines Register will eliminate several annual special sections, most notably the RAGBRAI preview and RAGBRAI campground editions. This also includes most sports special sections, with one exception being the Iowa-Iowa State football game.
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.
Newsroom not immune to cuts at the Des Moines Register
Of the 41 Des Moines Register staffers who lost their job this week, nine came from the editorial department. Read on for the names of some of those affected.