Staff at the New York Daily News and Forbes walked out on Thursday, adding to growing unease in the US newspaper industry in a week when the Los Angeles Times fired more than 100 journalists.
Citing changes to overtime policy and “chronic cuts” as fuel for the first Daily News walkout since 1991 – the year the paper was bought by the British press baron Robert Maxwell – staffers planned a 24-hour operation.
At Forbes, a financial news outlet based across the Hudson River in Jersey City but owned by an investment company from Hong Kong, employees went on strike for the first time to protest lack of progress in bargaining talks, two years since forming a union.
As an election year gathers pace, with Donald Trump poised to win the Republican presidential nomination again, national and local US newspapers are experiencing increasing staff unrest and major cutbacks.
Earlier this month, staff at the Baltimore Sun were left “aghast” when it was bought by David D Smith of Sinclair, a conservative media company with a track record of enforcing editorial control.
Margaret Sullivan, a former senior editor at the Washington Post and the New York Times, author of Ghosting the News and Newsroom Confidential and now a Guardian columnist, wrote: “Alden, reviled in the industry for strip-mining newspapers all over the country, was the Sun’s most recent owner.
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Staff at the New York Daily News and Forbes walked out on Thursday, adding to growing unease in the US newspaper industry in a week when the Los Angeles Times fired more than 100 journalists.
Citing changes to overtime policy and “chronic cuts” as fuel for the first Daily News walkout since 1991 – the year the paper was bought by the British press baron Robert Maxwell – staffers planned a 24-hour operation.
At Forbes, a financial news outlet based across the Hudson River in Jersey City but owned by an investment company from Hong Kong, employees went on strike for the first time to protest lack of progress in bargaining talks, two years since forming a union.
As an election year gathers pace, with Donald Trump poised to win the Republican presidential nomination again, national and local US newspapers are experiencing increasing staff unrest and major cutbacks.
Earlier this month, staff at the Baltimore Sun were left “aghast” when it was bought by David D Smith of Sinclair, a conservative media company with a track record of enforcing editorial control.
Margaret Sullivan, a former senior editor at the Washington Post and the New York Times, author of Ghosting the News and Newsroom Confidential and now a Guardian columnist, wrote: “Alden, reviled in the industry for strip-mining newspapers all over the country, was the Sun’s most recent owner.
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