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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DURING THE LAST WEEK OF DECEMBER 2008, AFTER THE last of a series of voluntary buyouts cost him two-thirds of his employees, The Times of Trenton publisher Brian [...]

'Newsday' sports copy editor Eric Compton was fired on Jan 18, 1995, for alleged racial remarks made before a new employee, John McGinn, who is Native American, reported for work. Compton and his colleagues denied the charges and filed a complaint with the New York State Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board. The appeal board got Compton the unemployment benefits he had been denied on Apr 7, 1995. There are complaints from minorities and women about the atmosphere in the department and the white males claim that everyone is made fun of., THE NEWSDAY SPORTS copy editors stood around their computer terminals gossiping about a minority trainee who was about to join the department. Eric Compton and a colleague, Norman Cohen, wondered [...]

The Hawaii Tribune-Herald, a Donrey Media Group newspaper, suspended union rep Frankie Stapleton three weeks before a vote on union representation at sister paper West Hawaii Today. Her union, the Newspaper Guild, charged that the shop steward and reporter's suspension and later dismissal violated the National Labor Relations Act and were calculated to intimidate employees at Today. The Tribune claimed her union activities disrupted her work, but Stapleton believes she was fired for trying to organize the other paper., Management at Hawaii paper says she worked for union on company time; she says she was fired for organizing AT Donrey Media Group's Hawaii Tribune-Herald in Hilo, Frankie Stapleton uneventfully [...]

A number of large newspaper publishers have adopted policies to make gays and lesbians more comfortable in the workplace. One of the largest publishers, Knight-Ridder, has been holding formal mandatory awareness programs on the issue, and reported that no problems have arisen as of yet. The workshop programs involve a discussion of the etiquette and the laws involved in being openly gay in the workplace., FOR LESBIAN AND gay journalists, newsrooms aren't closets with terminals anymore. In the past two or three years, many newspapers have moved dramatically to make openly gay and lesbian employees [...]

Newspaper Guild president Linda Foley sees the trend towards corporate ownership of daily newspapers and an emphasis on profits as the single largest threat to newspaper employees and the business itself. Foley contends that hometown newspapers lose their strength in focusing on local issues when they are acquired by out-of-town corporations. Foley remains optimistic about the future of unions and about the increasing role of women in the industry.

Women occupy a number of high-level positions in newspapers but only a few women are editors or executive editors of major dailies. One woman newspaper executive observed that there are more women in editorial positions than ever before but fewer in top positions than she had expected. Another former newspaper editor observed that personnel diversity issues may have become a secondary priority at many newspapers due to difficult economic situations., Ask most publishers about women's advancement in the newsroom and brace yourself for a that is equal parts statistics and verve. Women, they will rightly tell you, have made significant [...]

It is possible to inadvertently trigger discrimination suits through poorly written help-wanted ads. For example, such phrases as 'recent college graduate' and 'supplement your pension' have been considered discriminatory by the courts. Lawyers advise employers to advertise for skills needed for a job, rather than describe personal characteristics., When recruiting new employees for your sales or editorial staff, or for your printing plant, you can extend your talent search considerably by placing help wanted ads. But watch out! [...]

Interviewing potential employees can often result in discrimination and other lawsuits against newspapers and businesses unless interviewing is conducted with finesse and a legal knowledge of application procedures. Informal questions about children, for instance, can lead to sex discrimination charges. Interviewing personnel should avoid personal questions regarding the applicant's family and non-professional life. Personnel should also guide applicants to professional subjects if applicants talk about their personal lives. Additional interviewing suggestions are discussed., Your most dangerous legal traps when interviewing job applicants When the office manager at a Midwestern newspaper made friendly inquiries about a job applicant's children, he thought he was breaking [...]

The Dallas (TX) Morning News has been racked by controversy following the resignation of columnist Curtis Austin, an African American. Spurred on by the Austin resignation, the Dallas City Council voted to rescind an advertising contact for official notices worth $275,000 from the Morning News. The City Council action primarily was done to protest the lack of diversity on the paper's staff. The Morning News stated that it has made great strides in hiring minorities since 1981. Austin resigned from the paper due to his dismay over the way the Morning News management supported his efforts to become nationally syndicated and because of editorial interference with his column., Syndication, alleged racism, and more figure in the resignation of a Morning News staffer The Dallas City Council has denied the Dallas Morning News a $275,000 ad contract for official [...]

Richmond, Va.-based Media General Inc., parent of The Tampa Tribune and 20 other dailies, is ordering employees to take an additional five days off by the end of the year. [...]

Owners of the Daytona Beach (Fla.) News-Journal have cut 39 jobs companywide, including 14 in the newsroom, the newspaper reported Wednesday. The News-Journal Corp. said in a story that the [...]

Lee Enterprises has announced the reassignment of publishers at newspapers in Wisconsin, Washington and Hawaii. The Davenport, Iowa-based company on Tuesday said that Rick Parrish would move from his position [...]

About half of the 174 employees of the Columbus (Ga.) Ledger-Enquirer will be required to take a week off without pay, the paper reported Thursday. Publisher Valerie Canepa told employees [...]

Two months after eliminating 35 full-time equivalent positions, The Register-Guard in Eugene, Ore., swung the axe again Monday, cutting the equivalent of 16 full-time positions, or 5.9% of the staff. [...]

The publishers of the Wisconsin State Journal and The Capital Times will cut up to 15 newsroom jobs and consolidate some functions of the two newspapers. The publishers announced the [...]

The Kansas City Star announced Tuesday that it is instituting a one-week unpaid furlough program for most employees. Star Publisher Mark Zieman made the announcement in a memo to employees, [...]

The Newspaper Guild unit at The Baltimore Sun has filed an objection in bankruptcy court to Tribune Company plans to award some $69.9 million in bonuses to top executives, claiming [...]

The parent company of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel announced Tuesday it will reduce its workforce by 92 employees, or 6.2%, due to declining advertising revenue. The reductions include 37 voluntary [...]

When the Las Vegas Sun ceased publishing as a separate newspaper in 2005 and became a section tucked inside copies of its joint-operating-agreement partner, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, many industry [...]

The joke around The Miami Herald International Edition used to be that it was targeted for elimination in nearly every one of its 60 years. But as round after round [...]

Cox Ohio Publishing, which operates the Dayton Daily News among other newspapers, is extending buyouts to 'retirement-eligible employees,' the company announced today. The voluntary plan is for staffers who meet [...]

Newspaper publisher and TV station owner Media General Inc. says cost cutting helped deliver a profitable second quarter. The Richmond, Va., company, publisher of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and The Tampa [...]

Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, reached a tentative agreement with the Newspaper Guild of New York, for now allowing the Union to avoid threatened layoffs. In exchange, Guild [...]

More details are emerging about the latest round job cuts made at Gannett this week. Twenty-six jobs were cut at the Lansing (Mich.) State Journal. According to the Journal, no [...]

Enquirer Media in Cincinnati, which includes The Cincinnati Enquirer in print and online and other publications, has eliminated 101 positions. Publisher Margaret Buchanan said in an open letter to readers [...]

The Des Moines Register confirmed late Thursday that it had laid off 36 employees, or 6% of its total workforce. Employees let go came from throughout the newspaper including advertising, [...]

The Times Union of Albany, N.Y., will layoff 15 full-time and three part-time employees, including its business editor, sports editor and reader representative, the paper announced Wednesday. The cuts include [...]

The Cincinnati Enquirer has reportedly laid off the staff of its youth-centric publication, CinWeekly. The Business Courier of Cincinnati is reporting that the publication's staff was laid off Wednesday afternoon, [...]

MediaNews Group's Bay Area News Group-East Bay (BANG-EB) newspapers in California plan to lay off 18 newsroom employees, but is first offering volunteers a sweetened severance package. In a memo [...]

Of the 1,400 layoffs Gannett Co. is ordering at its U.S. Community Publishing Division, the Cincinnati Enquirer and its related digital and print products will absorb about 100, Publisher Margaret [...]

When West Australian Newspapers Holdings Ltd. sought to cut 5% of its full-time staff, 8.6% accepted buyout offers -- which has the Perth-based publisher shrinking by about 90 persons and [...]

The St. Paul Pioneer Press laid off nine newsroom employees and two more in advertising sales and production today, according to a report by the Star Tribune of Minneapolis. This [...]

The Indianapolis News Guild is voting today on a two-year contract offer from The Indianapolis Star that includes a 12% pay cut, no pay increases for at least two years, [...]

When owners of The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News asked guild members last fall to give up a $25-per-week raise, most were agreeable to the idea. Shelly Richards, a [...]

Less than a week before Newspaper Guild members at The Boston Globe are due to vote on a controversial contract agreement, Guild President Dan Totten has issued a letter to [...]

For the second time this year, Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. (CNHI) is requiring all staffers to take a five-day furlough. The newspaper chain, with 88 dailies, 48 weeklies, and other [...]

Some 17 full-time journalist positions at The Tampa Tribune were eliminated as part of another round of layoffs at the combined newsroom of the newspaper, WFLA-TV and the local Web [...]

Six or seven years ago, in a very different news- paper jobs market, it seemed that a family-owned group would have to be aggressive to entice journalists and executives to [...]

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch said it eliminated 39 jobs Friday by moving its circulation call center functions to The Times in Munster, Ind., and outsourcing distribution to a sibling company. [...]

Ongoing layoffs at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel will reduce the newsroom staff of the Tribune Co. paper by 20%, Editor and Senior Vice President Earl Maucker said Thursday. 'Everybody's going [...]

Tucson Citizen and Gannett Co. executives are telling employees they will determine by the end of the day Friday who among the approximately 60 full-time employees will continue to have [...]

The San Diego Union-Tribune, under new owners now, conducted layoffs in all departments Thursday. The move came just three days after Platinum Equity completed its purchase of the paper from [...]

A week after The Baltimore Sun slashed 60 newsroom jobs, including 18 top editing positions, some 50 newsroom staffers still at the paper have launched a one-day byline strike, according [...]

Members of the Chicago Newspaper Guild voted 52-9 Tuesday night to ratify a 9% cut in their wages at the Chicago Sun-Times, the newspaper reported. Included in the package of [...]

In the current economy and newspaper industry downturn, it is not unusual that a newspaper like the Reading (Pa.) Eagle would lay off 50 employees, as it did last week. [...]

The alternative weekly Boston Phoenix has implemented a number of cutbacks, including the layoffs of two editorial employees and four other workers, a halt to the recently introduced matching contributions [...]

Newspaper Guild members at The New York Times approved a 5% pay cut on Monday night, which is part of a cost-cutting plan that also includes 10 furlough days during [...]

Sometimes, pieces that may not really fit come together in revealing ways, especially nowadays, thanks to immediate distribution and then saturation via the Web. It happened again recently. Several leading [...]

The publisher of the Reading Eagle says the newspaper company has laid off 52 workers. Reading Eagle Company Publisher William Flippin says the layoffs are necessary for the future of [...]

The Syracuse Post-Standard is cutting pay for employees in the wake of a prolonged slump in advertising revenues. Newspapers executives told employees Thursday that their pay will be reduced July [...]