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Iowa’s Ride’s executive director is leaving both the not-yet-held cycling event and the state. T.J. Juskiewicz has been named executive director of El Tour de Tucson, the Arizona Star reported on Thursday. “It has been a great 17-year ride here in Iowa! I want to thank you for the great times and lifetime friendships that […]
The Press-Citizen will no longer have its own editor, Press-Citizen reporter Zachary Oren-Smith tweeted on Tuesday. Effective Monday, the Press-Citizen’s editor Tory Brecht was laid off, one of many cuts across our company as Gatehouse-Gannett’s mid-merger search for $300 million leads them into the newsroom. https://t.co/rsBYfEFHRI — Zachary Oren Smith (@ZacharyOS) April 28, 2020 According […]
The route for RAGBRAI 2020 was announced in Des Moines on Saturday night. As expected, this year’s route crosses northern Iowa, starting in Le Mars — the self-proclaimed “ice cream capital of the world” — and finishing when cyclists dip their wheels in the Mississippi at Clinton. […]
On Tuesday, RAGBRAI Director T.J. Juskiewicz announced that he “and the entire RAGBRAI staff [have] resigned.” Juskiewicz’s announcement was originally made in a open letter posted to the official RAGBRAI site, where it was quickly removed. “I can no longer be an effective leader when my principles are compromised by the leadership of Gannett/Des Moines Register,” Juskiewicz wrote. […]
GateHouse Media will buy Gannett Co. Inc., USA Today reported on Monday afternoon. USA Today is the flagship newspaper for Gannett, which also owns the Press-Citizen and Des Moines Register. The two companies agreed to a “cash-and-stock deal worth about $1.38 billion and financed in part with new private-equity debt” […]
According to multiple reports, GateHouse Media is preparing to buy Gannett, the media company that owns the Press-Citizen and the Des Moines Register. GateHouse is the largest owner of daily newspapers in the country with 156 dailies, mostly in small markets. It also owns 328 weeklies. Gannett, which owns 109 daily papers […]
Des Moines Register writer Andie Dominick has won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing. She wasn’t the only writer with an Iowa connection to be honored. […]
In early January, the Press-Citizen announced a new roster of reporters and aims for their newsroom of the future. The changes come after months of reorganization… […]
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