Des Moines Editor Taking Job in Capital
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DES MOINES — James Gannon announced Friday that he plans to leave his job as editor of the Des Moines Register by the end of this year to become a columnist and Washington bureau chief for the the Detroit News.
Gannon, 49, played a high-profile role in Iowa politics, organizing and moderating the Iowa presidential candidate debates before the state’s political caucuses in 1980, 1984 and this year.
He joined the Des Moines Register and Tribune newspapers in 1978 after working for 17 years as a reporter and bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal.
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