The Gannett Company is planning to shift all of its 89 local newspapers (not USA Today) over to 24-hour converged newsrooms in an initiative called the Information Center Project.

Each newsroom is required to submit a plan for the shift by mid-November, with plans being implemented by May 2007.

The newspaper company has been testing the plan with three of its newspapers: the Des Moines Register, in Des Moines, IA; The Argus Leader in Sioux Falls, SD; and Florida Today in ...