Thirty-six positions were lost at the Asbury Park Press, the Home News Tribune of East Brunswick, the Courier News of Bridgewater and the Daily Record of Parsippany.
Thomas M. Donovan, president and publisher of the Press and vice president of the company's East Group says all departments were affected.
Tuesday's cuts marked Gannett's largest round of layoffs in two years and the latest in a string of austerity measures imposed since print advertising began to fall in 2006.
Like most newspaper publishers, Gannett has been hurt by technological and cultural shifts, which have driven readers and advertisers to the Internet.
