HR Issues

NEW YORK: Although Cincinnati Post staffers were expecting today's announcement that the paper would cease publication at the end of the year, several newsroom employees admitted the final blow is not easy to take. Members of the 52-person news staff said they were not surprised at the decision by E.W. Scripps Company to fold the paper when the joint operating agreement with Gannett Co. Inc...

NEW YORK: The St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press is seeking to cut some 30 positions in news, classified advertising, and production through a series of buyouts, the paper announced today. The offer comes just seven months after a previous buyout reduced staff by 29 employees, including 22 in the newsroom. In a statement released this afternoon, the paper revealed that it would seek 30 volunteers...

NEW YORK: Just a day after United Press International revealed it would lay off its lone White House correspondent with no plans to replace him, comes word that UPI's long-running United Nations bureau will close after 62 years of covering the worldwide organization. In that move, the news organization is losing its most senior reporter, William M. Reilly, who joined UPI in 1961 and covered beats...

NEW YORK: United Press International is cutting 11 positions from its Washington, D.C., bureau, including its lone White House correspondent, Richard Tomkins. The move marks the first time in its history that UPI will have no one on that beat. "I have been expecting it for some time," said Tomkins, a seven-year UPI veteran who has covered the White House since 2003. "The company is not doing well...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and German media group Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (WAZ Mediengruppe) pledged to work together to ensure that journalists produce quality journalism all over Europe after the two signed the first-ever global framework agreement in the media sector. In a special event in Brussels the European Commission backed the historic agreement and welcomed...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today signed the first-ever global framework agreement in the media sector with Germany’s WAZ Media Group in a move that commits both sides to work together to protect freedom of the press, to promote quality standards in journalism and to secure fair working conditions for employees in the media. “It’s a breakthrough, which paves the way for...

Staff at Les Echos, France's top financial daily, have gone on strike for the third time in three weeks to protest against the possible sale of their title to luxury group Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy by UK owner Pearson. The latest strike comes as Bernard Arnault, the LVMH chief executive and chairman, said today he would guarantee Les Echos's editorial independence if he bought it. Journalists at...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Times, reeling from months of staff cuts and management shake-ups, said on Thursday that one of its two managing editors, Douglas Frantz, would leave the newspaper next month. Frantz, a former foreign correspondent named managing editor in 2005, will depart from the nation's fourth-largest daily on July 6, though he did not offer a specific explanation for...

NEW YORK — News Corp. (NWS) CEO Rupert Murdoch holds most of the cards when it comes to his $5 billion offer for Dow Jones (DJ). But the bargaining continues, and he still may need to use his skills of persuasion if he succeeds in acquiring the parent of The Wall Street Journal. After a deal, Murdoch would nominate top editors. But hiring and firing decisions would have to be approved by a five...

NEW YORK: They read like items one might post on Legacy.com or some other such memorial to the dead. "Used witty or acerbic lines of prose," "had deep affection for his colleagues," or " I've never seen anyone work as hard as he did." But these words of praise and stories of success are not for the recent passing of a news colleague or someone cut down in a work-related death. These paragraphs of...