By Julie Reynolds
March 8, 2018 – New York hedge fund Alden Global Capital siphoned hundreds of millions of dollars from one of America’s largest news chains, a new lawsuit charges, damaging local news organizations to finance insider investment deals. Continue reading “Hedge Fund Alden Siphoned 100s of Millions from Newspapers in Scheme to Gamble on Other Investments, Suit Says”
March 7, 2018 – Storytellers at a revolutionary, subscription-based media outlet that covers “under-explored, under-examined and under-reported stories,” have affiliated as associate members with The News-Guild-CWA through the Philadelphia Local. Continue reading “Ark Republic Storytellers Affiliate as Associate Members with Philadelphia Guild”
SIGN THE PETITION: Tell Duke to cut ties to Alden/Heath Freeman
This article by Julie Reynolds appears on the DFM Workers website.
March 2, 2018 – The NewsGuild-CWA, which represents workers at 12 Digital First Media newspapers, is urging Duke University to sever its ties to hedge fund president Heath Freeman, saying Freeman’s donations “directly contradict” the mission of Duke, home to one of the nation’s most prominent research centers for media and democracy. Continue reading “Guild Urges Duke to Sever Ties with Hedge Fund President”
Feb. 28, 2018 – The journalists of the Casper Star-Tribune made history on Feb. 27, voting for a union for the first time in paper’s 127-year history and becoming the first NewsGuild unit in Wyoming. Continue reading “Journalists of Casper Star-Tribune Make History; Continue ‘Inspiring National Trend’”
Feb. 26, 2018 – NewsGuild member Michael Faulk has filed a lawsuit against the city of St. Louis and nearly a dozen members of its Metropolitan Police Department, charging the officers assaulted him when he and approximately 120 others were arrested at a protest Faulk was covering for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Sept. 17, 2017. Continue reading “Guild Member Sues St. Louis, Police for Assault During On-the-Job Arrest”
Feb. 20, 2018 – A majority of editorial employees at Mic have signed on to a union organizing effort and are asking management of the digital news site to voluntarily recognize the NewsGuild of New York as their local union. Continue reading “Mic Employees Sign Up to Join NewsGuild”
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.
Continue reading “What Happens When a Journalist Gets Beat Up? Too Often, Not Much”
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.
Continue reading “Casper Star-Tribune Staff Takes Steps to Form Union”
Feb. 5 – 2018 – The NewsGuild-CWA and NABET-CWA are supporting a bill that would make it a federal crime to assault a journalist.
Continue reading “NewsGuild, NABET Support Journalist Protection Act”
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”
