HR Issues

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of planned job cuts in the U.S. media sector surged 88 percent last year and that trend will likely continue as readers shift from print to online services, a study on Thursday showed. For all of last year, the media industry announced 17,809 job cuts, up sizably from the 9,453 cuts announced the prior year, according to the job outplacement tracking firm...

NEW YORK, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Time Inc., the top U.S. magazine publisher, will cut 289 jobs from its estimated 11,300 workforce to slash costs as it invests more heavily in Internet properties, the company said on Thursday. The Time Warner Inc. (TWX.N: Quote, Profile, Research) division, which owns properties including Time and People magazines, will cut 117 business jobs and 172 editorial jobs, a...

NEW YORK, Jan 11 (Reuters) - The New York Times Co. (NYT.N: Quote, Profile , Research) said on Thursday it aims to cut about 125 jobs at its New England Media Group, including 19 editorial staff at the Boston Globe, through voluntary buyouts and outsourcing. The Globe's publisher Steve Ainsley said in a letter to employees that the buyouts would be offered in the first quarter to employees with at...

(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today welcomed the announcement by the government of India that it will set up wage boards for newspaper employees, which will provide a nationally negotiated agreement on wages and working conditions for the country's media staff. "This announcement is a good start to setting fair and equitable standards for journalists and other...

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet on approved the setting up of separate Wage Boards for journalists and non-journalist newspaper employees under a common chairman. ''The two boards, which will be under a common chairman, will be for working journalists and for the non-journalist newspaper employees,'' Information and Broadcasting Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi said, as quoted by UNI, after the Cabinet...

New Delhi, Dec. 14 (PTI): A large number of journalists and workers of media organisations today staged a demonstration in front of the Labour Ministry here demanding immediate constitution of a new wage board. The demonstration was organised by the Confederation of Newspaper and News Agency Organisations. M S Yadav, Joint Secretary of the Confederation, addressing the protestors, said "If the...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on its network of more than 100 unions and associations around the world to give their backing to a nationwide series of unified protests in India on Thursday. The country’s three major journalists groups – the Indian Journalists’ Union, the National Union of Journalists, India and the All India Newspaper Employees Federation – have...

VNU, THE PARENT OF NIELSEN Media Research, ACNielsen and a variety of trade publications, Friday began part of a massive layoff that is expected to reduce its total workforce by about 4,100 jobs, or nearly 10% of its 42,000 worldwide organization during 2007. The cuts were first made known via pink slips handed out among some top editors of its trade publications. On Friday, entertainment industry...

Female correspondents working on the BBC's flagship television news bulletins earn £6,500 less than their male counterparts on average, according to figures released under the corporation's freedom of information scheme. The disclosure will support claims of the existence of a glass ceiling for women journalists at the BBC, and will raise questions about the fairness of the corporation's overall...

Welcome to corporate America, journos! Reporters at The Washington Post will now be ranked with a multiple-choice job-performance assessment each year. Accompanying an annual written evaluation, each reporter will be described as: “frequently exceeds expectations,” “sometimes exceeds expectations,” “meets expectations,” “sometimes fails to meet expectations,” or “frequently does not meet...