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Francie Krantz Williamson announced this afternoon she’s leaving her job at one Iowa newspaper and moving to another.

Currently the page-one editor for the Quad-City Times of Davenport, Francie tweeted today:

Just gave my two week notice at the Times. I start at the Cedar Rapids Gazette as a print content editor on Feb. 1.

Cedar Rapids is about 85 miles northwest of Davenport and a hell of a lot closer to Iowa City, where she lives:

Francie tells us:

I’ll have more responsibility — I’ll basically be “in charge” on Saturdays. It’s an exciting time at the Gazette as they try to survive the tumult of our industry and I’m excited to be a part of it.

A 2000 graduate of the University of Missouri, Francie spent two years as a designer for the Sun News of Myrtle Beach, S.C. and then two more years as a copy editor at the Press Herald in Portland, Maine. She moved to the Savannah (Ga.) Morning News in 2004 and then to Iowa in 2007.

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