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Ralph Spring Issue 2008 Light years closer to our goal in East Bay Special report on One Big BANG drive Organizers at the Bay Area News Group-East Bay petitioned for a new Guild Unit on May 2 after gathering signed union cards from a solid super-majority of newsroom workers. The petition was filed with the Oakland region of the National Labor Relations Board and moves the “One Big BANG: One Guild Universe” campaign light years closer to an historic representation vote. BANG-EB owner MediaNews Group, which wiped away the former ANG Newspapers unit of the Guild last year in a merger, now faces the prospect of negotiating with one of the most potent clusters of organized journalists anywhere in the country.
SPECIAL BANG UPDATE Employees file petition for BANG-EB unit A commanding majority of us, the newsroom employees of Bay Area News Group-East Bay, have signed authorization cards to form a guild. So today we took these cards to the National Labor Relations Board and formally petitioned for recognition as a union. It's a great moment. Today we declare our bold choice -- to believe in a better future for ourselves, for our newspapers and for journalism as a whole.
Livernois named Herald executive editor Joe Livernois, a 24-year newsroom veteran at The Herald, is the paper's new executive editor. |
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NEWS OF THE INDUSTRY Cablevision strikes deal to buy Newsday Cablevision Systems and the Tribune Company announced a $650 million deal on Monday that will give Cablevision a 97 percent stake in Newsday. Cablevision's Newsday bid the favorite after Murdoch exits Tribune Co. and Cablevision Systems Corp. Saturday appeared poised to strike a $650-million deal for Newsday after presumptive front-runner Rupert Murdoch exited the stage, according to people familiar with the negotiations. Revenue problems force Seattle Times to cut staff by 125 Following up on vows to bring spending in line with its shrinking revenues, The Seattle Times Co. sliced the staff at its flagship newspaper by 125 employees this week. News Corporation withdraws its bid for Newsday People involved in the negotiations, who asked not to be named because the talks were confidential, said this month that Newsday’s owner, the Tribune Company, seemed headed toward accepting Cablevision’s bid, which at $650 million was the highest. Mr. Murdoch, however, told investors and analysts in a conference call on Wednesday that he remained confident, counseling, “Just be patient for a couple of days.” Judge says she'll order SF Weekly to pay millions more to Bay Guardian A San Francisco judge said Friday that she would likely issue an injunction barring the SF Weekly newspaper from selling cut-rate advertising as a way of putting the competing San Francisco Bay Guardian out of business. |
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MORE NEWS OF THE INDUSTRY McClatchy slashes value of Seattle Times The McClatchy Co. continues to slash its estimated value of its investment in The Seattle Times Co., as both the local daily and the newspaper industry as a whole continue to reel from lost revenue.
Journal Register warns it could default by July Troubled Journal Register Co. warned late Friday in a regulatory filing that it probably will be in default of its loan covenant before the end of July.
Gannett offers 160 buyouts in NJ Gannett Co. Inc. on Friday said it was offering buyouts to a total of 160 workers at five of its six New Jersey newspapers, as advertising revenues decline.
King of the city journalism is all the rage Consider the new Big City American journalism and the emerging cast of characters owning it. It's a page right out of the history books when a few well-heeled titans controlled the press, and its new incarnation could have all kinds of implications for the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium, for AP and for the journalism start-ups near and far.
Tribune Publishing results skid in Q1 -- off 11% The Tribune Co. reported that Q1 earnings from continuing operations soared to $1.82 billion compared with $11 million from the same period a year ago. The favorable upswing was due to the change of the company's tax status at the beginning of the year to a subchapter S corporation.
Union claims New York Times' layoffs methodology is 'flawed' The Guild says it "has been carefully analyzing the [New York Times] layoffs to make sure that management has followed the contract's job security provisions. At this point, it appears to the Guild that the company has not done so. In fact, the Guild has already filed a grievance regarding the methodology used by The Times to decide who would be laid-off."
Layoffs and buyouts announced at three more dailies Layoffs and buyouts have hit three more daily papers, with announcements of cutbacks in Colorado, Kentucky, and South Carolina.
Herald-Leader Seeks Buyout from 4 Percent of Staff The Lexington Herald-Leader is looking to trim its staff of 385 full-time employees by 4 percent through a voluntary buyout program.
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