In Des Moines, the Register’s New Newsroom Space Aims to be a Symbol of its Digital Future

By: Nikki Usher | Nieman Journalism Lab

The Des Moines Register said goodbye to almost a century worth of memories in June when it left its 13-story home for a floor-and-a-half of commercial real estate in what had been vacant office space.

The newspaper had a lot of goodbyes, many of them painted poignantly by Iowa columnist Kyle Munson in a series boldly called “Tradition on the Move.”