The Des Moines Register is a daily newspaper in Des Moines, Iowa, USA covering local news, sports, business, politics and community events.
The newspaper is published seven days a week.
The Des Moines Register is the daily newspaper in Des Moines and is distributed throughout most of Iowa. Des Moines is the county seat of Polk County as well as the capital and most populous city in Iowa, located on the banks of the Des Moines River, a tributary of the Mississippi.
The Register began with a series of 19th century newspapers including the Iowa Star, founded in 1849. In 1915 the newspaper adopted its current name. The Cowles family of Des Moines owned the paper for most of the 20th century and sold it to Gannett Company in 1985. The Register became part of the "new" Gannett Company in November 2019 when New Media Investment Group, a unit of private equity company Fortress Investment Group, bought Gannett and merged it with GateHouse Media.
Circulation estimate: 101,915
The Des Moines Register is one of the highest circulation newspapers in the USA.
This newspaper is owned by Gannett Company, Inc.
| Business editor: | Bill Steiden |
| Entertainment editor: | Susan Stapleton |
| Sports editor: | James Kramer |
For Des Moines Register contact information, see the Iowa news media contacts at EasyMediaList.com.
Average (8 votes)Iowa Senate Removes Journalists from Senate Chamber The Des Moines Register Names Carol Hunter Editor
In November 2016, Carol Hunter replaced Amalie Nash as the executive editor of the Register. Des Moines Register executive sports editor Bryce Miller, who has been with the newspaper since 2009, will step down from his position to become a sports columnist there, effective August 26, 2012. -- January 4, 2011 -- Rick Green is now editor of The Des Moines Register, effective January 17. He replaces Carolyn Washburn, editor of the Register since 2005. Green was previously editor of the Palm Springs Desert Sun. The Des Moines Register Wins 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography
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-- For over 100 years, reporters and photographers have worked at press benches along the front wall of the Iowa Senate chamber, providing them with access to legislators. This year they will be moved to the public gallery above Senate floor.
Stephen Gruber-Miller wrote at the Des Moines Register on January 7, 2022:
Iowa Senate won't allow journalists to work in chamber, in shift from longstanding practice
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-- April 12, 2010: The 94th annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music, awarded on the recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize Board, were announced today by Columbia University.
Prizes in Journalism -- Breaking News Photography:
For a distinguished example of breaking news photography in black and white or color, which may consist of a photograph or photographs, a sequence or an album, in print or online...Also in Iowa...
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