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What Happens When a Journalist Gets Beat Up? Too Often, Not Much

This Opinion Column appeared in the HuffingtonPost on Feb. 15, 2018.

Feb. 15, 2018 – Taylor Lorenz was covering the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, for The Hill newspaper last August ― and had just captured video of counterprotester Heather Heyer being struck and killed by a car ― when she herself was knocked to the ground.

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Casper Star-Tribune Staff Takes Steps to Form Union

Feb. 7, 2018 – A majority of the newsroom staff of the Casper Star-Tribune, Wyoming’s statewide newspaper, filed cards with the National Labor Relations Board to begin the process of forming a union, the Casper News Guild Organizing Committee announced on Feb. 6.

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Journalist Protection Act

NewsGuild-CWA, NABET-CWA Support Journalist Protection Act

For Immediate Release – Feb. 5, 2018

Contact: Bernie Lunzer,
202-434-7177
Sally Davidow
sdavidow@cwa-union.org
202-368-3324

Washington, DC – Unions representing 30,000 reporters, photographers, and broadcast employees are praising a bill filed Monday that would make it a federal crime to assault a journalist.

The Journalist Protection Act, introduced by Rep. Eric Swalwell of California, addresses a real need, said NewsGuild President Bernie Lunzer. Continue reading “NewsGuild-CWA, NABET-CWA Support Journalist Protection Act”

Layoffs, buyouts across DFM newspaper chain follow hedge fund’s profit-extraction strategy

UPDATE: Total buyouts in San Jose this week now stand at 15, at least 9 of whom are NewsGuild-represented, bringing total job losses for the Bay Area News Group this week to at least 27.

By Julie Reynolds

Feb. 2, 2018 – Recent company-wide layoffs at Digital First Media newspapers are part of a calculated strategy to extract maximum profits in the next two to three years before shutting down or selling the chain, a prominent news business analyst said Wednesday. Continue reading “Layoffs, buyouts across DFM newspaper chain follow hedge fund’s profit-extraction strategy”

50 Years: Honoring Echol Cole and Robert Walker

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Remembering Echol Cole and Robert Walker

On Feb. 1, 1968, Memphis sanitation workers Echol Cole and Robert Walker were huddled in the back of their truck seeking shelter from a storm when the truck’s compactor malfunctioned, trapping Cole and Walker and crushing them to death. Continue reading “50 Years: Honoring Echol Cole and Robert Walker”

Pittsburgh Guild Launches Byline Strike to Protest Contentious Contract Talks

Jan. 25, 2018 – One hundred fifty newsroom employees at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have instituted a byline strike to protest 12 years of pay cuts and additional concessions demanded by family-owned Block Communications, Inc., in contract talks, local Pittsburgh Newspaper Guild President Michael A. Fuoco has announced. Continue reading “Pittsburgh Guild Launches Byline Strike to Protest Contentious Contract Talks”