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1. October 22, 2012 06:20 PM

   ‘Hi, Mark!’

   The Newspaper Guild welcomes The New York Times's new CEO

   By Sara Morrison

   Mark Thompson began work today as the new CEO of The New York Times, and the Newspaper Guild was there to greet him: The guild has been in negotiations with NYT management since the union contract expired over 18 months ago, and relations between the sides have only become more acrimonious. Last February, guild members lined the hallways outside the...

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2. June 10, 2011 05:07 PM

   Newspaper Guild Calling on Freelancers for Survey

   By Joel Meares

   Rebecca Rosen Lum, chair of the Guild Freelancers Unit of The Newspaper Guild-CWA, has sent along some information about a survey the unit is conducting of independent journalists. If you fit the bill, take a look, and take a moment. Here's the blurb from Lum: Whether you've been unmoored from a traditional newsroom or have been working independently all along,...

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3. July 20, 2011 03:14 PM

   The Newspaper that Said “No” to Murdoch

   Thirty years ago, the Buffalo Courier-Express took a stand

   By Celia Viggo Wexler

   On September 17, 1982, the newspaper guild of the Buffalo Courier-Express voted to do something no other media outlet in the U.S. had done or would do: It voted to turn down an offer from Rupert Murdoch’s News America Publishing Company to buy the failing Buffalo morning daily. The vote meant that Buffalo would be left with one newspaper, The...

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