In this Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014, file photo, specialist Michael Cacace, foreground right, works at the post that handles Gannett, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Gannett stock has now fallen to 65 cents a share

It's an abrupt fall from the $12.06 New Media Investment offered last August as roughly half the payment to acquire the company.
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In this April 1, 2020, photo, a news crew wearing personal protective equipment due to COVID-19 concerns reports outside the Chase Center that will become a makeshift hospital at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in the Queens borough of New York. People desperate for information are more reliant than ever on local media as the coronavirus spreads across the U.S. But newspapers, magazines and digital publishers are feeling the pressure as advertising craters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Here are the newsroom layoffs, furloughs and closures caused by the coronavirus

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Gray Television reassures employees it is not planning any furloughs, pay cuts or layoffs

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TEGNA furloughs local TV news staffs, managers take temporary pay cut

The Dallas Morning News announced today that it had laid off 43 people, 20 from its newsroom. (Photo by Doris Truong)

The Dallas Morning News announces pay reductions

In this photo from May of 2018, an employee of The Denver Post holds up a sign during a rally against the paper's ownership group, Alden Global Capital, outside the paper's office and printing plant in north Denver. Members from all guild units were on hand in Denver for the rally at which they urged Alden Capital to invest in the newspapers that it controls or sell the properties. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Layoffs hit Alden newspapers in Denver, Boston and beyond

Don Lewis’ disappearance was covered by local news, including this front page story in the Tampa Tribune from Dec. 9, 1997. (Image via newspapers.com)

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