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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.
The Des Moines Register's historic downtown office building.
The paper reports cuts will come from the U.S. Community Publishing division, which consists of more than 80 local dailies, citing an anonymous source within the company. Jim Hopkins, who follows the company at GannettBlog, reported last month that layoffs were expected to take place July 8 and total 4,500 jobs in the company’s newspaper division. Hopkins now reports that the layoffs will include a mix of newsroom and business positions, and notices will be completed by the end of the month.
Last year, Gannett eliminated more than 4,000 newspaper positions, including more than 100 newsroom positions in Iowa. The Register alone eliminated nearly 70 positions. Since the layoffs, the company has instituted two rounds of weeklong furloughs in hopes of staving off another round of job cuts.
Sources inside The Register’s newsroom said there has been no formal announcment from management regarding layoffs.
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