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Union-Busting Spurs Organizing at MediaNews

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August 1, 2007
For publishing giant MediaNews, combining its Bay Area newsrooms is a not-so-subtle way of trying to dump its union. But The Newspaper Guild-CWA plans not only to survive, but grow.

Even Reporters Aren’t Immune to Offshoring

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August 1, 2007

It sounds like a parody of outsourcing you'd see on The Daily Show: 

Rather than send a reporter to a city council meeting, a publisher assigns a worker in India to watch a satellite feed of the meeting and write the story.

Special Industry Report: Media

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August 1, 2007

The media industry, already very highly concentrated, is continuing to consolidate. That means greater pressure on workers' jobs, benefits and opportunity whether in print or broadcast — often combined, along with online communications, within the same corporation.