'Des Moines Register' Lays Off 36, 6% of Staff

By: E&P Staff The Des Moines Register confirmed late Thursday that it had laid off 36 employees, or 6% of its total workforce.

Employees let go came from throughout the newspaper including advertising, production, circulation, marketing, information technology, finance and the newsroom, the paper said in an un-bylined article on its Web site.

"Our goal was to minimize impact on our reporting staff and we achieved that," Laura Hollingsworth, the Register's president and publisher, said in a statement. "We remain invested in and committed to providing the depth and quality of news and information Iowans have always depended upon. We will serve Iowans now and for years to come as a multimedia information company."

The Register cuts come as other Gannett Co.-owned newspapers carry out layoffs to pare the chain's workforce by 1,400.