Journalists at the Reporter-Herald in Loveland, CO, took action to make their voices heard and to protect their community’s access to news on Dec. 2, announcing that they are unionizing as the Heart of NoCo News Guild.
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One year ago, the vulture hedge fund Alden Global Capital bought nearly a third of the stock in Tribune Publishing, one of the nation’s most venerable newspaper chains, owner of the Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Orlando Sun-Sentinel, the Hartford Courant and others.
Continue reading “A year under Alden’s grip, how is Tribune faring?”
Nov. 12, 2020 – The journalists of the Los Angeles Times have won a victory for pay equity: Owners of the Times and Tribune Publishing agreed to pay $3 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that women and journalists of color were paid less than their white male counterparts. The settlement was announced Tuesday.
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In a pair of interviews with Midday on WYPR, journalism advocates warned of the dangers facing communities that lose access to local news.
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Nov. 2, 2020 – The journalists of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram won voluntary recognition of their union on Monday, becoming the third McClatchy publication to do so this year.
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Oct. 28, 2020 – The Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma, a project of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, will deliver a 75-minute training on trauma awareness and self care at 7 p.m. ET on Nov. 9. The event is sponsored by the NewsGuild of New York and is open to all NewsGuild-CWA members. The training will be led by Bruce Shapiro, the Dart Center’s executive director, an investigative journalist and an expert on occupational health of journalists. Continue reading “Training: Trauma Awareness and Self Care”
Oct. 28, 2020 – Staffers of Color Of Change, one of the nation’s largest racial justice organizations, announced Wednesday that they have won voluntary union recognition from management. They will be represented by the Washington-Baltimore News Guild local of The NewsGuild-CWA. Continue reading “Workers of Color Of Change win voluntary union recognition”
Oct. 27, 2020 – The NewsGuild-CWA, representing nearly 24,000 media professionals and journalists, stands with our colleagues at news organizations and journalism advocacy groups across the world in opposition to the proposal by the United States’ Department of Homeland Security to limit the duration of “I Visas” to 240 days. Continue reading “NewsGuild-CWA denounces DHS restrictions on foreign press visas”
Oct. 26, 2020 – What is a news organization without a physical room to meet in and how are cuts to local papers hurting communities?
That was the question asked by Brian Stelter, host of CNN’s Reliable Sources weekly program, on Oct. 25. Continue reading “Empty newsrooms: A symbol of what is being lost”
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on SaveTheNews.org on Oct. 20.
Oct. 21, 2020 – When the The Casper Star-Tribune this summer announced it would only print five editions per week — leaving Wyoming with not a single local newspaper that prints every day — it was “a symbolic punch” to the gut for the paper’s newsroom staff, former reporter Seth Klamann recalled. Continue reading “Wyoming: Without a Daily Paper Since 2020”
