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29 Oct

Free Press strike ends

The striking workers at the Winnipeg Free Press have agreed to the company’s offer and the deal was ratified on Oct. 28. Free Press publisher Bob Cox thanked the workers […]

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27 Oct

Striking Free Press workers to vote on offer

After two weeks on strike, Winnipeg Free Press staffers will vote on a new employment contract offer on Oct. 28. Mary Agnes Welch, spokeswoman for the Communication, Energy and Paperworkers […]

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20 Oct

Free Press publisher says union statements false

On the seventh day of an employee strike at the Winnipeg Free Press, the paper’s publisher Bob Cox published a message to readers on winnipegfreepress.com. In his message, Cox said […]

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25 Jun

Copy editing outsourced to India

The idea of outsourcing work immediately brings to mind tech work such as computer programming. But copy editing? An Associated Press story run by the American journal Editor and Publisher […]

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25 Apr

NYT bracing for mass layoffs

Staff at the New York Times is bracing for as many as 30 layoffs in the next 10 days, reports the New York Post. NYT Executive Editor William Keller had […]

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17 Apr

TorStar cuts jobs

Torstar Corp., owner of the Toronto Star, Canada’s biggest-circulation daily, said in a press release that it will cut 160 jobs in its newspaper division. A report by Reuters said […]

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29 Nov

Layoffs in the NYT newsroom

An internal memo from NYT executive editor Bill Keller has made its way to mediabistro.com, declaring “about a dozen support positions within the newspaper are being eliminated.” In 2008, the paper plans […]

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13 Nov

CanWest cuts: opposition

Unions are starting to speak up against the latest CanWest newsroom cutbacks, which they argue will erode local news coverage. But where are the people who read/watch the news, and […]

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