Guild Meeting Feb. 3: Find Out What’s Happening in These Turbulent Times

WASHINGTON – As we all know, these are turbulent times, to say the least.
Find out more about what is coming up and what the Guild is doing. Come to the next Guild membership meeting Feb.3 between 12 pm-2 pm. If…

What’s the Latest at Post.com?

WASHINGTON — As the Post moves forward with the integration of print and internet operations,we have in place a process for advance notification of significant changes. These include meetings with management to discuss and act upon changes as they occur, and…

Guild Reaches Agreement With Post on Buyout Package For Workers Who Got Layoff Notice

WASHINGTON – A Guild Committee on Jan. 27 negotiated a significantly improved buyout or “separation incentive package” for seven Guild-covered Washington Post employees on the commercial side.
The committee included: Ann Marie Ditchey, Darlene Meyer, Barbara Cohen, Stephen Richardson and Rick…

Guild Scores BIG — Gets Named to Creditors’ Committee in Trib Bankruptcy

BALTIMORE — The Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild-CWA was named as one of nine members of the creditors’ committee in the bankruptcy filing by Tribune Co. The relatively unusual inclusion of a union on a creditors’ committee follows the Guild’s success in securing…

Former Postie Says Post Needs to Rethink its New Strategy

By Tom Grubisich
Knight Digital Media Center

[Editor's note: Tom Grubisich is a former Washington Post reporter and editor]

In her first major statement as publisher of the Washington Post, Katharine Weymouth late last year announced a seemingly Zen-inspired long-term strategy of three…

Post Managing Editor Phil Bennett Stepping Down: Says He Wasn’t Forced Out

Phil Bennett

Phil Bennett

By Joe Strupp
Editor and Publisher
NEW YORK — Washington Post Managing Editor Phil Bennett, who is leaving his job of four years for a non-newsroom position at the paper, said he was not forced out and wanted to do something different.
“That…

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