The Guild has joined nearly 70 advocacy organizations and news outlets in a letter to the L.A. County sheriff, written and sent by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, protesting deputy sheriffs’ violent arrest of KPCC radio reporter Josie Huang for “obstruction.” Arresting officers claimed Huang didn’t identify herself as a journalist; her […]
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San Francisco Chronicle managing editor Michael Gray sent this message to the Chronicle staff: September 17 marks six months since we, and all of the Bay Area, were ordered to stay home, stay safe, and just do our jobs as well as we could under those circumstances. Somehow, despite a growing sentiment out there that […]
Read Moreby Caroline Grannnan, PMWG Chronicle unit chair The Pacific Media Workers Guild has been advocating forcefully for the San Francisco Chronicle to remedy pay inequity that disadvantages employees of color and women. In June 2016, PMWG members in the Chronicle newsroom launched a study of salary data to assess pay equity at the Chronicle. The […]
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The Pacific Media Workers Guild is pleased to recognize and honor El Tecolote newspaper for its 50 years of commitment in providing a voice to the San Francisco Bay Area Latino community. Located in the heart of the Mission District, El Tecolote is the oldest bilingual English/Spanish newspaper in California; El Tecolote has for 50 […]
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State-level legislation to hold law enforcement officers’ and public officials’ feet to the fire when they violate journalists’ rights is long overdue. Of especially strong concern is officers’ mistreatment of journalists, including those with press credentials; abuses range in severity from detention to injurious assault, and it’s a growing trend that needs to be stopped. […]
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NEW YORK — U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Michael Wiles approved the sale of the McClatchy Company’s assets to Chatham Asset Management on Tuesday for $263 million in debt and $50 million in cash, with Chatham granting a new $87 million loan. The newspaper chain had filed for bankruptcy in February. An attorney for McClatchy, Van […]
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By Caroline GrannanPacific Media Workers Guild unit chair, San Francisco Chronicle David Perlman, the revered San Francisco Chronicle science writer and editor who started at the Chronicle in 1940 and retired 77 years later in 2017 when he was a vigorous 98 years old, died June 19 at age 101. Perlman, who became a Newspaper […]
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June 14, 2020 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE HONOLULU — Workers, community members and reporters are reacting with shock to the Honolulu Star-Advertiser’s announcement Thursday it is laying off half of the newsroom. This devastation at the state’s largest newspaper will permanently damage the critical news coverage Hawaii depends on. “This decision was disappointing, frustrating and unnecessary,” […]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJune 15, 2020 Three former governors of the state of Hawaii have joined forces to urge the Honolulu Star-Advertiser not to go through with sweeping layoffs it has announced that would cripple the newspaper and ultimately hurt the community that depends upon it. Former Governors John Waihee, Ben Cayetano and Neil Abercrombie sent […]
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In a matter with press-freedom implications, the Guild and several other organizations are joining the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in seeking authorization to file an amicus brief supporting a woman appealing a Sacramento County Superior Court finding that a complaint of sexual harassment against a California assemblyman was defamatory. Pamela Lopez is […]
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