by Bob DeMay | May 22, 2009 | Industry News
Newspaper Guild covered employees at the The Plain Dealer have ratified an agreement that calls for economic concessions as a way to stave off further staff reductions. The one-year agreement calls for a an 8.1% pay reductions as well as 11 days of unpaid furlough....
by Bob DeMay | May 18, 2009 | Industry News
A week away from home, work and newspapers is gone in a flash. Having been forced to take two unpaid weeks off this year working at a Gannett property Matt Detrich asked me what kind of vacation I was on. My reply – the old fashion kind – paid. We...
by Bob DeMay | May 7, 2009 | Industry News
Another newspaper has jumped on the bandwagon of dropping an edition to lower costs. This time it’s here in Ohio where the The Portsmouth Daily Times is will no longer print a Monday edition of the newspaper as of May 11.Full story
by Bob DeMay | May 6, 2009 | Industry News
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer John Filo and his subject, Mary Vecchio, were reunited Monday at Kent State University during the annual May 4 commemoration on campus. The reunion was only the third time they have been together since the Pulitzer image was made,...
by Bob DeMay | May 3, 2009 | Industry News
Lisa DeJong of The Plain Dealer, William D. Lewis of The (Youngstown) Vindicator, Abigail Bobrow of the Sandusky Register, Sarah Wright of the Chillicothe Gazette and Mike Ullery of the Piqua Daily Call were named Best Photographers in the state Sunday in the annual...