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January 30, 2016
Three ballots were distributed at last night's contract ratification vote in Springfield, IL. Two dealt with how parts of the contract - should it be ratified - would unfold. The first set of options was to determine how the bargaining...
lifted from the Illinois Times. . .
January 30, 2016
Friday, Jan. 29, 2016 09:28 pm Shove it SJ-R newsroom rejects contract By Bruce Rushton Newsroom employees at the State Journal-Register tonight rejected a final contract offer from GateHouse Media, the company that owns Springfield’s daily newspaper. The vote was...
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...