…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…
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Unions, public interest advocates thwart hedge fund’s attempted takeover of local news and set groundbreaking FCC precedent
…also financed the disastrous merger of Gatehouse and Gannett in 2019, resulting in a large debt load and a 56% cut of jobs at both companies since the merger just…
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…
America needs stronger reviews of news company mergers
Gannett and GateHouse merged in 2019. Alden Global Capital gobbled up Tribune Publishing in 2021. Alden made a play for Lee Enterprises in 2022 – and may make another. “Consolidation…
Newsletter: Miami walks out, Buzzfeed authorizes a strike and Condé union gets bigger
…this takeover further erode the number of local journalists in the U.S.? Remember, Apollo helped finance the Gannett-Gatehouse merger and since then we’ve lost thousands more journalists. Members of the…
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,”…
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…
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…
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…