A former RAGBRAI director has launched a Facebook group that wants to “Save America’s Greatest Bike Ride from the corporate giants threatening to destroy it forever.” “Because friends don’t let […]
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The Iowa City Press-Citizen will no longer be locally edited (Updated)
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 […]
GateHouse Media will buy Gannett, owner of the Press-Citizen and Des Moines Register, for $1.4 billion
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”
Report: Gannett, owner of the Press-Citizen and Des Moines Register, will be bought by rival GateHouse
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
Gannett’s ‘newsroom of the future’ and its impact on community journalism
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…