…counterparts at the Akron Beacon Journal, Canton Repository and Massillon Independent. The formerly family-owned newspaper was purchased in 2017 by GateHouse Media, which changed its name to Gannett following a…
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Desert Sun journalists win union vote
…organizing drives in newsrooms across the country, including at Gannett, which merged with GateHouse Media in a private equity-funded takeover in 2019. The company has laid off workers and frozen…
Tired of watching co-workers come and go, Desert Sun’s journalists announce union campaign
…costly takeover by GateHouse Media. The Arizona Republic voted overwhelmingly to organize in 2019, and four Gannett newsrooms in Florida — the Palm Beach Post, Palm Beach Daily News, Naples…
Gannett shareholders reject Guild proposal for report on journalism
…United Media Guild local of The NewsGuild-CWA. The meeting, held virtually due to the ongoing pandemic, was the first since the GateHouse-Gannett merger. “The report would give shareholders a comprehensive…
For the future of their newsroom, staff of Delaware Online, News Journal move to unionize
…of Gannett and GateHouse Media to form the nation’s largest media company, has made the industry even more uncertain and journalists have responded by organizing. Last month, journalists at the…
Announcing union campaign, journalists of southwest Florida see hope for the future
…conditions resulting from a corporate merger between Gannett and GateHouse Media. “This has taken a toll on our working conditions,” they wrote. “We have lost skilled journalists, and in many…
Journalists of South Bend Tribune unionize, adding momentum to organizing surge
…merger with GateHouse Media in November. “In the last several months, it became clear that many in our newsroom sought a voice in the future of the South Bend Tribune,”…
Hedge fund founder Randall Smith and his wife gave $100,000 to the president’s 2020 joint fundraising committee
…the Gannett and GateHouse newspaper chains merged, a bitter pill for Alden because its own takeover of Gannett was thwarted earlier in the year. It’s hard to say what prompted…
Despite management’s vicious anti-union campaign, journalists of Arizona Republic win overwhelming victory
…victory comes ahead of a pending merger between Gannett and behemoth GateHouse Media that threatens to cut $300 million from the combined companies. The Republic becomes the first unionized newsroom…