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LOCAL NEWS
BULLETIN The Guild has been trying to answer the many questions regarding the upcoming editorial work reduction in the BANG-EB unit. Executive Editor Kevin Keane sent out answers to many of them yesterday afternoon. Instead of replicating them, the information is posted below. There are also additional questions we have asked the company. We asked how many guild positions are among these 18. The company was checking, but an early answer was that it will probably depend on how many volunteers there are. If you volunteer, you will qualify for unemployment insurance. The company said it will not challenge claims, as it has done in the past.
CONVENTION REPORT CWA delegates expand funds for organizing
Strategic industry campaigns can seek new units WASHINGTON -- Delegates to the Communications Workers of America convention opened a fresh source of financing for organizing campaigns Monday amid calls to revive the recession-battered labor movement. By a two-to-one roll call vote, CWA convention delegates lifted restrictions governing the union's Strategic Industry Fund, which has been used since 2006 only for a limited range of national campaigns, mostly focused on building membership strength within existing bargaining units.
Steffens wins Guild Service Award for role in East Bay
Laid-off reporter honored for organizing Sara Steffens -- organizer of the BANG-East Bay unit of the California Media Workers, face of the Employee Free Choice Act campaign, and mother of a newborn daughter --- won the 2009 Newspaper Guild Service Award Saturday. Steffens, the award-winning journalist who was laid off after she and her colleagues organized MediaNews Group's East Bay newspapers last June, was announced as the winner of the Guild's most-prestigious award by Larry Cohen, president of the Communications Workers of America, the Guilld's parent union, during the Guild's 74th annual conference in Washington, D.C.
PRESIDENT'S VIEW
Finding glimmers of hope in frontline workers At the Guild convention in Washington, I was part of a panel that reviewed recent concessionary bargaining situations, and it was my job to recount the brutal round of talks this spring at the San Francisco Chronicle. We made a difficult decision in the best interest of the majority of our Guild colleagues. I'm proud of that decision, and proud of our members at the Chronicle, as well as those at the Sacramento and Modesto Bees, who made similar sacrifices.
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NEWS OF THE INDUSTRY
Cincinnati Enquirer share of Gannett layoffs: 100 Of the 1,400 layoffs Gannett Co. is ordering at its U.S. Community Publishing Division, the Cincinnati Enquirer and its related digital and print products will absorb about 100, Publisher Margaret Buchanan said in a memo Thursday. MediaNews Group: We're not on brink of bankruptcy MediaNews Group late Wednesday denied a report in an investors newsletter that it is arranging a pre-packaged bankruptcy -- or readying any change in ownership of the Denver-based publisher controlled by William Dean Singleton and Richard B. Scudder. Murdoch denies interest in acquiring NYT Murdoch, the 78-year-old News Corp. (NWSA Quote) chairman and CEO who moved television news considerably to the political right with Fox News, stunned the U.S. newspaper establishment in 2007 with his purchase of Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal. Judge: Philly newspaper creditors must share taping info A federal judge overseeing the bankruptcy proceedings for Philadelphia Newspapers LLC ordered lawyers for the company's creditors to share details of their investigation into an alleged unauthorized recording of a meeting with the company's lenders. Indy Star Guild overwhelmingly rejects contract offer The Indianapolis News Guild overwhelmingly rejected a two-year contract offer from The Indianapolis Star that would have included a 12% pay cut, no pay increases for at least two years, and the elimination of arbitration on individual layoffs. A closer look at MediaNews Group's debt When the Rocky Mountain News was put up for sale in December (a move that prefigured its February closure), employees clinging to hopes of a last minute reversal of fortune repeatedly pointed to the debts burdening MediaNews Group, owner of the Rocky's rival, the Denver Post. Because MediaNews, chaired by Post publisher Dean Singleton, isn't a public company, however, it was mighty difficult to quantify the depth of that debt. But a new article offers some tantalizing clues. 
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Another big round of layoffs is imminent at Gannett The Gannett Company, owner of the nation's largest newspaper chain, will go through another round of layoffs soon, with an announcement possible in the next few days, executives said Tuesday. Lee Enterprises changes mind on reverse stock split Lee Enterprises said late Tuesday it is not going ahead with a reverse stock split that would raise its share price, which currently costs about as much as a copy of one of its dailies. 1Cast: Hitting the mobile video aggregation trifecta "Mobile." "Video." Usually, these are the rather dry one-world descriptions of What's Next, items on to-do lists for anyone serious about building new digital businesses. Add "Social," and you've got a trifecta. St. Paul Pioneer Press lays off in newsroom, ad sales The St. Paul Pioneer Press laid off nine newsroom employees and two more in advertising sales and production today, according to a report by the Star Tribune of Minneapolis. Gannett Co. to execute another round of layoffs Gannett executives told told The New York Times' Richard Perez-Pena that the McLean, Va.-based company is getting ready to issue another round of layoffs. Indianapolis Guild votes on contract with 12% pay cut The Indianapolis News Guild is voting today on a two-year contract offer from The Indianapolis Star that includes a 12% pay cut, no pay increases for at least two years, and the elimination of arbitration on individual layoffs. Freedom Communications, under new CEO, cuts pay 5% for all staffers Barely two weeks after being named interim CEO of Freedom Communications, Burl Osborne announced that company-wide salaries will be cut by 5%. More industry news
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