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LOCAL NEWS Advertiser Bargaining Update No. 12 A General Membership Meeting of the Council’s Affiliated Unions: Saturday, July 26, 2008 2:00 p.m. ILWU, Local 142, 451 Atkinson Drive Parking is limited. Carpooling is suggested.
Advertiser Bargaining Update No. 11 After more than a year of negotiations, the Advertiser today brought the process back to Square One with a regressive contract proposal that would cut pay, eliminate meaningful work jurisdiction, threaten pensions and eliminate job security.
Company, 'unwilling to pay,' cuts offer The Hawaii Tribune-Herald again has cut its wage offer to members of the Hawaii Newspaper Guild. The company’s latest wage offer came during a day-and-a-half of negotiations between the Guild and the Company on July 2 and July 3. |
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NEWS OF THE INDUSTRY Star Tribune’s debt for sale as newspaper woes mount The lenders who financed Avista Capital Partners’ 2007 acquisition of the Star Tribune now want out of the deal, and are seeking a buyer for their debt package, originally worth more than $400 million. |
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MORE NEWS OF THE INDUSTRY New York Times Co.'s second-quarter earnings fell 82 percent from a year ago, when it saw a one-time gain from the sale of a unit, but print advertising continued to shrink and pulled down operating income, the publisher said Wednesday.
Cuts needed, Tribune's Zell says, 'so we can survive' Real estate mogul Sam Zell, who took control of media giant Tribune Co. about six months ago, defended yesterday the staffing and page cuts under way at The Sun and its other newspapers as necessary in the worst advertising climate in decades.
As papers struggle, news is cut and the focus turns local Almost two-thirds of American newspapers publish less foreign news than they did just three years ago, nearly as many print less national news, and despite new demands on newsrooms like blogs and video, most of them have smaller news staffs, according to a new study.
Advertiser workers protest layoffs Dozens of Honolulu Advertiser workers held signs and rallied on the sidewalk in front of their offices on Kapiolani Boulevard at noon yesterday over the unexpected layoffs of 54 employees.
The new single-digit newspaper stock Is this the Big Board, or the Dollar Store? Nearly all newspaper stock prices have shrunk to the single-figure level Two events on the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday seemed to sum up the woeful state of publicly traded newspaper companies.
Sun-Sentinel cutting news staff 20% -- but not reporting it Just days after The Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel admitted it was cutting 20% of news staff but not reporting it, The Sun-Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale, another Tribune paper, revealed it was reducing staff under a similar plan.
Allentown paper to cut 35-40 jobs, close bureaus -- redesign coming The Allentown Morning-Call is the latest paper to release information about Tribune-mandated job cuts and redesign of the daily.
After layoffs: Newspapers get smaller, Pew study finds U.S. daily newspapers aren't shrinking just their newsrooms, an extensive study released Monday finds. Stories, page count, sections, international and national news are all smaller, too -- and only a minority of editors think online journalism will save their papers.
FUTURE OF NEWSPAPERS 'Save the Sun' A photojournalist's blog in Baltimore reads like an obit may be next for one of this nation's proudest dailies: "Dressed in black, nearly 200 people gathered outside The Baltimore Sun Thursday to protest 100 job cuts at the company. The rally was a show of force that will not affect the outcome of events to come, but that leaders hope demonstrated to the community what it is losing."
Modesto Bee moving ahead with plans to print in Sacramento In an update to employees, Publisher and President Margaret Randazzo said that based on an analysis of printing The Modesto Bee in Sacramento, "it is clear that this move makes both financial and operational sense."
The Sun in Baltimore cuts 55 newsroom jobs The Baltimore Sun says it has eliminated about 100 jobs in its latest round of job cuts. Union leaders said the cuts included 55 newsroom jobs.
Star Tribune, Guild reach tentative three-year agreement The Newspaper Guild and the Star Tribune reached a tentative agreement Wednesday concerning a proposed three-year contract. |
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