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Bay News Rising Students Deliver Hard-Hitting Stories
Community , Local news

Bay News Rising Students Deliver Hard-Hitting Stories

DEREK MOORE August 22, 2018May 8, 2020 0 comment

The 2018 Bay News Rising class delivered a series of compelling articles tackling some of the more intractable issues of our time, including immigration, mental health and police shootings.

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Bay News Rising Journalists Take Flight
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Bay News Rising Journalists Take Flight

Pacific Media Workers Guild June 7, 2018May 8, 2020 0 comment

College reporters, who are paid for their work, dive into weighty subjects under the guidance of professional journalists and union officials.

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Together in homelessness: couples living on the streets struggle to find help
Community , Local news

Together in homelessness: couples living on the streets struggle to find help

Pacific Media Workers Guild September 13, 2016March 8, 2020 0 comment

Being homeless in San Francisco is tough enough. But homeless couples that want to stay together have an extra burden: The city simply doesn’t know how to accommodate them.

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Student journalists revive labor reporting
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Student journalists revive labor reporting

Pacific Media Workers Guild July 31, 2015March 8, 2020 0 comment

Student journalists in the Pacific Media Workers Guild’s Bay News Rising summer program in social justice reporting have unleashed some amazing work.

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Service award winner embodies best of labor, Guild ideals
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Service award winner embodies best of labor, Guild ideals

Michael Applegate July 24, 2015March 8, 2020 0 comment

Rebecca Rosen Lum of the Pacific Media Workers Guild is the latest winner of the Guild’s prestigious Charles B. Dale Service Award. Although she wasn’t able to pick up the award in person at the CWA Convention, local leaders delivered it to her. “I couldn’t have been more stunned – or more thrilled – to win […]

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Broken Table author says bargaining is wrecked
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Broken Table author says bargaining is wrecked

Pacific Media Workers Guild August 20, 2014March 8, 2020 0 comment

The Detroit newspaper strike was not only one of the longest and largest strikes in history, it also marked the destruction of the negotiation table, argues Fordham University professor Chris Rhomberg.

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Guild art show and panel on Méndez a hit

Michael Applegate July 16, 2014November 22, 2014 1 comment

More than 40 people showed up at the Mexican Museum in Fort Mason on Tuesday night to learn about the Leopoldo Méndez prints discovered and restored by the Guild.

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Guild recovers artwork’s distinguished heritage

Pacific Media Workers Guild July 8, 2014June 4, 2015 1 comment

For three decades, a set of black-and-white linocuts hung on the exposed brick walls of the Guild office, rarely eliciting more than passing interest. Each bore the signature of Leopoldo Méndez.

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Bay News Rising student bulletin #1

Michael Applegate June 5, 2014November 22, 2014 0 comment

On May 27, ten eager Bay News Rising journalism students met with the Guild to negotiate the terms of a collective bargaining agreement. The 9-week long summer program gives students the opportunity to experience freelance writing and to focus on labor reporting.

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Bay News Rising a success (again)

Michael Applegate June 1, 2014November 22, 2014 0 comment

At a time when freelancers and temps comprise more than one-third of the workforce, the Guild is reaching out to the next generation of journalists to help them prepare for self-employment.

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J-school students face wage issues in bargaining and summer reporting

Michael Applegate May 29, 2014November 22, 2014 0 comment

Ten student journalists began the 2014 edition of the Bay News Rising summer program by organizing their own bargaining unit at Local 39521 in San Francisco.

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Méndez Rising: art show sponsored by the Guild

Michael Applegate May 15, 2014November 22, 2014 1 comment

Save July 8 for a special tribute to the art of Leopoldo Méndez. Méndez was a Mexican artist known for his political and social-justice images, part of a revolutionary arts movement that flourished in Mexico City from the 1930s through the ‘50s.

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James Madison award winners for sunshine and first amendment work announced by SPJ NorCal chapter

Michael Applegate February 10, 2014 0 comment

Freelance journalist Richard Knee will receive a Distinguished Service Award for 12 years of service on San Francisco’s Sunshine Ordinance Task Force.

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Scholarship, memorial honor beloved Guild veteran

Michael Applegate September 24, 2013November 22, 2014 1 comment

Tech-savvy Guild leader Russ Cain was the union’s main database expert and one-man help desk for years. When he died recently, staff members wondered how they could possibly manage without him.

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Hundreds gather at City Hall to hear Supreme Court decision on gay marriage

Michael Applegate July 1, 2013December 11, 2014 0 comment

The Guild’s Bay News Rising student reporter was on scene at City Hall to capture the sights of hundreds of San Franciscans who gathered to hear the outcome of the Supreme Court’s decision on Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act.

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