The Tribune Company is expected to announce staffing reductions as early as today at its flagship Chicago Tribune as well as its largest-circulation newspaper, The Los Angeles Times, as revenue in the newspaper industry declines. While no official announcement had been made about the cuts, reports in both newspapers late last week, citing informants they did not identify, said they were imminent...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Times will offer buyouts to up to 150 employees to offset declining circulation and advertising in the latest effort by parent company Tribune Co. (TRB.N: Quote, Profile , Research) to cut jobs ahead of its plan to go private in an $8.2 billion deal. The buyouts would equal 3 percent to 5 percent of workers at the Times, Tribune's largest newspaper, publisher...
The National Union of Journalists is planning a "quality journalism" campaign to make sure that media workers can resist what it calls employers' attempts to "squeeze more and more" out of staff. Many journalists working on multimedia projects and new platforms such as podcasts were "approaching breaking point", warned the NUJ general secretary, Jeremy Dear. With the union's annual conference...
Kolkata, April 12: Wage boards for journalists and non-journalist employees are likely to be constituted within this month, Union Labour Minister Oscar Fernandes said here today. "I am trying to constitute the wage boards very soon," Fernandes told newspersons here. Asked whether the wage boards would be constituted within this month, he answered in the affirmative. The government had on December...
NEW YORK: Eight former staffers of the Santa Barbara News-Press, who claim they were illegally fired in the latest dispute at the embattled paper, have launched a new Web site of their own, where they plan to cover local stories until they get their jobs back. Dubbed "Santa Barbara Newsroom," the ad-free site, at www.santabarbaranewsroom.com, launched Monday with stories about local issues such as...
Demand for training is overwhelming as midcareer journalists and news executives face the digital revolution, but the news industry response in the US is fractured, says a new survey. The survey, conducted for the John S and James L Knight Foundation , shows training is failing to keep pace with the urgent and significant demands of industry transformation. This is Knight’s second major study of...
Strategic training for journalists is helping news organisations build readership and drive online innovation, a new book has affirmed. News, Improved: How America’s Newsrooms Are Learning to Change, which reports findings of the first-of-its-kind $10 million training and research project by the John S and James L Knight Foundation, comes at a critical time as the digital revolution transforms the...
The percentage of minority journalists working in US daily newsrooms declined slightly to 13.62 percent this year, according an annual newsroom census. According to the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE), this year the associaiton counted full-time journalists working online for the first time to reflect the industry emphasis on expanding its Web presence. Including online-only...
A New Zealand newspaper publisher announced Thursday it plans to outsource much of its editorial production to another company — a move that brought a pledge from unions to fight the proposal. APN New Zealand, half-owned by Irish businessman Tony O’Reilly’s Dublin-based Independent Newspapers Ltd., told staff up to 70 editorial staff jobs would be lost if it sources some editorial production from...
Are you good in English grammar, spelling and editing? Well there may be a job waiting for you from a newspaper thousands of miles away in the U.S. After IT companies, Banking and finance companies, call centres, education, medical transcription and legal sectors, it is now the U.S. that is looking for outsourcing editing jobs to India and some other developing countries. “Sure, there have been...
