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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Jun 26, 2024, 12:30 PM Jun 2024

Everett Herald strike continues, as owners aim to resolve layoffs

EVERETT — Unionized news staff at The Daily Herald continued to strike for a second day Tuesday, picketing layoff notices that threaten to roughly half the newsroom.

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Todd Carpenter, chairman of Mississippi-based Carpenter Media Group, has said staff reductions were meant to ensure the long-term stability of Snohomish County’s top news source. Carpenter’s plan eliminated positions of 10 of 18 Everett NewsGuild workers, as well as two top editors.

“Carpenter has done nothing productive since wrecking our newsroom last week,” said Ryan Berry, one of two photographers laid off from a three-person photo staff, in a written statement.

In an interview, Berry added: “The only action they’ve taken is cutting more than half the newsroom.”

https://www.heraldnet.com/news/everett-herald-strike-continues-as-owners-aim-to-resolve-layoffs/

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Everett Herald strike continues, as owners aim to resolve layoffs (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2024 OP
gonna be repeated in Oregon? OldSWODog Jun 2024 #1

OldSWODog

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1. gonna be repeated in Oregon?
Wed Jun 26, 2024, 12:44 PM
Jun 2024

YMBL, thanks for the heads up...Carpenter is the outfit that also just bought Pamplin Media...Pamplin has a couple dozen papers in the Portland metro area and beyond...with the Oregonian now down to 4 printing and the local Pamplin papers printing weekly, local news will be hard to find except online...even the Willy Week is no longer printing for the burbs...I guess there's no profit in covering City Hall/County Commission...sad state of affairs, indeed...on a related note, the Guardian is my primary newspaper (alas, also online) but I can't expect the folks in Manchester in the UK to provide coverage in Beaverton and WashCo...cheers, OSD

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