Lee Enterprises, parent of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, is seeking a 23 percent wage cut from members of the newspaper’s union.
The newspaper publishing company proposed pay cuts of 15 percent in the first year, and 5 percent each in the second and third years of the contract, according to information posted on the St. Louis Newspaper Guild’s Web site.
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Monday, June 1, 2009
Virginia Loses 1st Newspaper
Marc Fisher writes:
The Clarke Courier was a small newspaper for a small place. Its circulation was but 2,240, but in a county of just 14,000 people, that meant that if you wanted to know what was going on in Clarke, you had better check the Courier.
No more. The Courier last week became Virginia's first paid circulation newspaper to die in the epidemic of closings, layoffs and cutbacks that are part of the dismantling of the American news infrastructure. It won't be the last.
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Clarke Courier says goodbye
The Clarke Courier was a small newspaper for a small place. Its circulation was but 2,240, but in a county of just 14,000 people, that meant that if you wanted to know what was going on in Clarke, you had better check the Courier.
No more. The Courier last week became Virginia's first paid circulation newspaper to die in the epidemic of closings, layoffs and cutbacks that are part of the dismantling of the American news infrastructure. It won't be the last.
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Clarke Courier says goodbye
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