Sunday, June 30, 2013

Des Moines | A video shows the new newsroom

Some 525 employees of The Des Moines Register and Gannett moved into new quarters last weekend as GCI sold the paper's long-time home. In this video posted yesterday, Editor Rick Green gives a tour of the reconfigured newsroom.
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  1. Jim Hopkins6/30/2013 7:58 AM

    In 2008, just before Gannett launched a series of layoffs across the company, the Des Moines Register alone employed about 1,000 workers. Five years later, according to this video, that number has been cut in half.

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    1. Anonymous7/01/2013 9:35 AM

      Apples and oranges, since many positions went to GPS.

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    2. Jim Hopkins7/01/2013 10:33 AM

      That's a little true. But there's no way GPS accounted for anywhere near the 475 layoffs and other job cuts at Des Moines since 2008.

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    3. Anonymous7/02/2013 11:44 AM

      Keep in mind most GPS employees in Des Moines are based at the production plant, and weren't counted in the total employees that moved from the downtown headquarters.

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    4. Anonymous7/02/2013 11:53 AM

      GPS also includes IT and all of Toni Humphrey's PMS/GIADC/RTC department, doesn't it?

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  2. Anonymous6/30/2013 9:33 AM

    Now that is under the radar layoffs!
    I live in Iowa and that has never been reported on.
    In fact, I was employed at a Gannett weekly in Iowa until 2011 and had no idea that many cutbacks were being made.Not even competing newspapers reported it.

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  3. Anonymous6/30/2013 9:57 AM

    This past Wednesday, Green Bay staff was shown a portion of that video after the announcement their building was on for sale, as an example of what could be possible.

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  4. Jim Hopkins6/30/2013 10:57 AM

    Here's a post following an August 2008 layoff that shows total employment at most of Gannett's U.S. community dailies, according to Corporate's records at the time.

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  5. Anonymous6/30/2013 12:44 PM

    The irony here is that Green points to a "state of the art" room which will be used for video, but this video itself was shot with a crappy camera, probably one of those Sonys Gannett bought in the middle of the last decade. NO HDSLRs get bought? His face goes into shadow as he walks around, sheesh.
    A box of tschit in a gift-wrapped box with a bow on top is still...

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  6. Anonymous6/30/2013 3:20 PM

    That's a nice news room. Pisses me off they spend that kind of money on one property and shit all over so many others.

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    1. Anonymous6/30/2013 7:17 PM

      At least they're not spending it on Detroit.

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  7. Anonymous6/30/2013 8:46 PM

    12:44 - What are you smoking? This was shot on high end HDSLR video, with a steady-cam and ultra wide lens. Can't do that with a decade-old Sony.

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  8. Anonymous7/01/2013 1:41 PM

    It is a nice newsroom. Too bad it's supposed to be an information center.

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