Gannett, News-Leader employees ordered to take furloughs

It's back to normal for Gannett, which will require its employees at newspapers across the United States, including those at the Springfield News-Leader to take an unpaid one-week furlough at some point during the first quarter.

Gannett executives said the unpaid time off is in response to revenues that remain short of where they were a year ago.


"This was, quite frankly, an option I had hoped we could avoid," Bob Dickey, president of Gannett's U.S. Community Publishing .