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PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The largest union at Philadelphia's two biggest daily newspapers is planning to launch an online newspaper to compete with the company Web site if workers go on strike after midnight on Thursday. Employees from The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News would contribute local content that will be edited and posted online, said Stu Bykofsky, a Daily News columnist...

PARIS: The rush of job recruiting ads on MonsterIndia.com tells the story of the latest class of workers to watch their trade start migrating to another continent. "Urgent requirement for business writers," reads one ad looking for journalists to locate in Mumbai. "Should be willing to work in night shifts (UK shift)." Another casts for English-speaking journalists in Bangalore with "experience in...

The St. Paul Pioneer Press will eliminate the equivalent of 40 full-time jobs after seeing ad revenue drop in key categories, a trend that accelerated in recent months. The jobs will be cut through a combination of attrition, buyouts and layoffs. The newsroom, the paper's single largest department, will cut the equivalent of 20 full-time positions. The other cuts will be spread across the...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The editor of Philadelphia's largest newspaper will step down at the end of the year as the company's new owners seek contract concessions, including deep newsroom cuts, in response to falling circulation and advertising revenue. Philadelphia Inquirer editor Amanda Bennett will be replaced by Bill Marimow, a former Baltimore Sun editor and Inquirer city editor who is now...

NEW YORK, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Employees at San Francisco Bay-Area newspapers owned by MediaNews Group Inc. should expect layoffs in the near future because of poor advertising and changes to their business, according to a publisher's memo. The papers, owned by Denver-based MediaNews Group Inc., include the Oakland Tribune, the Hayward Daily Review and the San Mateo County Times. MediaNews also owns...

ZAGREB, Croatia: The prime minister on Friday requested that the managing board of Croatia’s state-run news agency be dissolved — just months after it was appointed by his government — saying it had failed to consult employees when choosing a new director-general. Prime Minister Ivo Sanader said the four-member board of the HINA agency demonstrated a “great democratic deficit” because they made a...

Dean Baquet is taking a stand. The editor of the Los Angeles Times is putting his career on the line, telling his corporate bosses at the Tribune Co. that he cannot abide deeper cutbacks in a newsroom that has already lost more than 200 jobs since the Chicago conglomerate bought the paper six years ago. If the company keeps slashing away, colleagues say, Baquet is prepared to leave. "I think it's...

THEY say that everything is bigger in America, and this was certainly true at the Los Angeles Times last week. Declining newspaper sales might be raising tensions between journalists and corporate owners all over the place, but they have reached unprecedented levels on LA’s most famous newspaper. Having refused to make new staff cuts on the back of over 200 redundancies over the past five years...

The Telegraph Group is believed to be looking to axe about 70 journalists as part of its project to create a digital newsroom. Production staff such as subeditors and designers are expected to bear the brunt of the cull, designed to streamline the Telegraph's print and online operations. However, reporters and commissioning editors are likely to emerge virtually unscathed, once the Daily Telegraph...

A lot has changed for women in the past 100 years. Corsets have gone out of style, glass ceilings have shattered and voting rights are a reality. But when it comes to sports journalism, women are still lagging behind. n June, the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports at the University of Central Florida released the results of a diversity study commissioned by the Associated Press Sports...