GUILD, Post Agree on Salary Classification

Today, a Guild committee consisting of Video Journalist Whitney Shefte, Reporter Fred Kunkle, and Guild Rep Rick Ehrmann met with Post Vice President for Labor Jay Kennedy and Deputy Managing Editor Shirley Carswell concerning The…

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From: NEWSPAPER GUILD MAILING
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:03:54 -0400
Subject: Guild UNION TIMES: ‘Cost-Saving’ Committee Meets
[New York Times guild members]

September 24, 2009

“Cost-Saving” Committee Meets
Times Agrees to Offer Voluntary Buyouts
Pay Cut to be Restored in January

Representatives of the Guild and Times management met…

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By Jack Shafer
Slate

I thank the Fates every day that my greatest professional mistakes came when nobody was watching. This morning, as her newspaper reported the spiking of a piece of the sort she had bad-mouthed, Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth…

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By Joe Strupp
Editor & Publisher

The Washington Post’s foreign staff plans to boost Middle East coverage, while also focusing more on enterprise and in-depth stories over breaking news in coming months.

“We will have at least half of our correspondents in the…

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By Andrew Vanacore
Business Writer
NEW YORK — Some of the world’s most prominent technology companies are offering suggestions to publishers on how they can charge readers for news online.

IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp., Oracle Corp. and Google Inc. — a company some newspapers…

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