Monthly Archives: July 2012

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Written on Jul, 31, 2012 by in , | Leave a comment

Source: fogcityjournal.com When longtime reporter Bill Snyder joined a panel of fellow labor journalists during Laborfest, he brought along a copy of Moby Dick. When it was his turn to speak about the issues journalists face today, Snyder opened the book to an earmarked passage and began to read. “Again, I always go to sea as a sailor, because they make a …

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Written on Jul, 30, 2012 by in , | Leave a comment

Source: theglobeandmail.com Conrad Black and Warren Buffett have something in common – they both think newspapers are undervalued. As newspapers across North America frantically build paywalls to charge their online customers and cut back on their publishing schedules and staff to reduce costs, the former publisher says there’s still value in the industry if it’s run the right way. read …

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Written on Jul, 18, 2012 by in , , , | Leave a comment

Source: mediaunion.ca A tentative four-year deal has been reached between Local 2000 and Pacific News Group covering all unionized employees of the Sun and Province newspapers. “This was a very hard round of bargaining because of the difficult financial condition of the company and the troubled state of the newspaper industry,” said Local President Mike Bocking. “The agreement reached is the …

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