HR Issues

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined protests against the closure of the French-language daily Cambodge Soir and voiced its solidarity with the 30 newspaper employees who face losing their jobs. According to local reports, on June 12, only a day after Cambodge Soir journalists launched a strike protesting the unfair dismissal of news editor, Soren Seelow, management...

The Mercury News will reduce its newsroom staff by 40 positions through layoffs that will take place in July, the company announced Tuesday. The reduction - a nearly 17 percent cut - will leave the paper with 200 newsroom positions, down from a peak seven years ago of about 400. The cuts are in response to declining advertising revenues, said Executive Editor Carole Leigh Hutton. "Revenue is not...

Nepal’s Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala has pledged to preserve monarchy in the country if the present king Gyanendra and Prince Paras voluntarily quit their throne. Speaking Sunday to Pakistani journalists in kathmandu, Koirala expressed his inner desire to protect monarchy even if the coming Constituent Assembly decides not to keep it. When his remarks were highlighted by national media in...

Tens of thousands of journalists are planning a co-ordinated day of protests in every European capital to highlight a dramatic media crisis over political pressure, falling standards and poor working conditions across Europe. “It’s time to stand up for journalism,” said Aidan White, General Secretary of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) at a national conference of German journalists on...

LONDON: Journalists at Les Echos, a French financial daily, walked off the job Tuesday, stopping publication of Wednesday editions, as Pearson, its British owner, confirmed that it was considering a sale of the newspaper. Pearson declined to name the interested party or parties, but a union representative at Les Echos, Katty Cohen, said journalists assumed that the potential buyer was Bernard...

Prague- Czech courts will probably deal with the alleged discrimination against some employees of the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) seated in Prague, the daily Lidove noviny (LN) writes, referring to the case of Armenian reporter Anna Karapetian who complaints against her dismissal from the radio after 12 years.Karapetian claims that the notice is invalid and wants the...

The role of the National Union of Journalists is to come under discussion at a public debate where former MP Tony Benn will be among the panellists. The discussion will be lead by a panel which also includes Jeremy Dear, NUJ general secretary, and David Aaronovitch, columnist for the Times. The moderator will be Charlie Beckett, director of the Polis think tank at the London School of Economics...

News International today announced 50 editorial job cuts at the Times and News of the World as part of its latest cost-cutting drive. The job losses at the two Wapping titles form part of company-wide cost-cutting measures, with News International understood to be seeking savings of £30m. Editors of News International's four national titles - the Sun, News of the World, Times and Sunday Times -...

NEW DELHI: The Government on Monday issued the formal notification for constitution of wage boards for journalists and non-journalists of newspapers and news agencies. The two wage boards would be chaired by the former judge of the Kerala High Court, Justice K. Narayana Kurup, and would have 10 members each representing the employers, the working journalists and the non-journalists. As per the...

CHICAGO: When a big-city newspaper's circulation starts falling in the United States, reporters and editors fret about impending layoffs. But apparently when circs go south in France, it's the journalists who do the firing. As Kim Wilsher, reporting in Paris for The Guardian in Manchester, U.K., writes Wednesday, the reporters and editors voted to dismiss the chairman of Le Monde, the Parisian...