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By Jeremy Schiffres, Daily and Sunday Freeman, Kingston, N.Y.

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

GCI: Greedy company, indeed

Newspaper giant Gannett Co. Inc. announced today that it's laying off 700 people, or roughly 2 percent of the company's workforce.

This just three months after the company revealed CEO Craig Durbrow had his salary doubled and received a $1.25 million cash bonus.

Good lord.

Labels: This is the state of the USA today

: Name: Jeremy Schiffres, City Editor

Jeremy Schiffres has been the city editor at the Daily and Sunday Freeman in Kingston, N.Y., since late 1990. He joined the Freeman in early 1988 as a copy editor. A native of Rochester and a graduate of SUNY College at Buffalo, Schiffres' previous newspaper gigs were at The Niagara Gazette in Niagara Falls, N.Y., and The Saratogian in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. If you want to keep his attention, be sure to talk about Buffalo-area sports teams, the highs and lows of Elton John's music career or the finer points of making chili -- or just challenge him to a game of Scrabble. Schiffres, 50, lives in Kingston with his wife, Rhona. Their 19-year-old son, Marc, is a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

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