New publisher, same problem at SJ-R
May 2, 2016
The churn continues at the State Journal-Register. Salespersons come and go. So do reporters, frustrated by the eternal wage freeze invoked by GateHouse Media. Notable departures include Jamie Munks, Maggie Menderski, Dan Petrella, Tobias Wall and Molly Beck. And this...
Labor Tribune ratifies new contract
April 29, 2016
The United Media Guild finalized its new collective bargaining agreement with the Labor Tribune, adding to its list of settlements in recent months. The contract featured 3 percent raises this year and next year for the Labor Tribune's one full-time...
Press Club to hold “Trump Effect” panel discussion
April 5, 2016
United Media Guild member Aisha Sultan, a columnist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, will moderate a Press Club panel discussion on "The Trump Effect" at noon, April 28 at the Pasta House in University City, at 8213 Delmar. Joining her...
UMG honors journalism, activists at Local Meeting
January 29, 2016
The United Media Guild honored journalist Michele Munz and several of its activists at a Local Meeting Thursday night in St. Louis. Munz won the Terry Hughes Award for her distinctive reporting and writing for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A...
GateHouse Media’s utter disregard for quality journalism
January 10, 2016
It's never good news when New Media Investment Group, the parent company of GateHouse Media, buys your newspaper. Wholesale newsroom cuts and outsourcing come next, as we have seen at five UMG-represented newspapers: The Peoria Journal-Star, State Journal-Register of Springfield,...
UMG to hold Local Meeting Jan. 28
January 5, 2016
The United Media Guild will hold its quarterly Local Meeting and Annual Awards Presentation Jan. 28 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m at Lombardo's Trattoria, 201 South 20th St. in downtown St. Louis (in the Drury Inn next to Union...
UMG mourns loss of sports columnist
December 28, 2015
Once again the United Media Guild is mourning the loss of a prominent sports columnist at its Post-Dispatch unit. Joe Strauss lost his battle to cancer Sunday at the age of 54. He was a member of the UMG since...
Nominations sought for Terry Hughes Award
December 8, 2015
Terry Hughes was 36 when she died of breast cancer on July 22, 1991. A columnist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, her writing was clear, witty and descriptive, with a flair for portraying society’s underdogs. Some of her columns chronicled...