The Monterey County Weekly is running a piece this week on the situation at the MediaNews-owned Herald. Guild members there are in the midst of contract negotiations with the company.
On Jan. 18, MediaNews laid off eight Herald employees, including two editors and one reporter. It was the second round of layoffs since the company bought the paper and 32 others in 2006.
“The thing that worries me as a journalist: I’m really concerned about the decreasing local coverage,” said staff writer Claudia Meléndez Salinas, chair of the Monterey unit of San Jose Newspaper Guild. “When you start reducing the number of people gathering information and making sure that it is delivered accurately, the community suffers.”
The article also notes that MediaNews paid $25 million in cash dividends to shareholders in 2007.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Monterey Herald Guild members speak out
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Did they mention that Singleton, Scudder and their family trusts control 93 percent of the company's stock, by chance?
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