The United Media Guild

UMG negotiates raises at St. Louis Review

United Media Guild members at the St. Louis Review ratified a new five-year contract that maintains strong jurisdiction language and provides increases to the pay scales. A Scale Senior Journalists with five years of experience got a 3 percent increase...

Nominations for the 23rd Annual Terry Hughes Award

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...

NLRB charges GateHouse with labor law violations at Rockford Register Star

The National Labor Relations Board has charged GateHouse Media Illinois Holdings Inc. with multiple violations of the National Labor Relations Act for management actions at the Rockford Register Star. The NLRB investigated a complaint filed by the United Media Guild...

UMG mourns the loss of Post-Dispatch columnist

The United Media Guild has lost one of its best and most prominent members. St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Bryan Burwell passed away after a short battle with cancer. One story tells you everything you need to know about the kind...

New Media/GateHouse keeps buying and slashing

The vulture capitalists at New Media Investment Group/GateHouse Media are at again. The same folks who built the GateHouse Media empire -- before running it into bankruptcy and blowing through $1 billion in debt -- are building an even bigger...

TNG Sector Conference, CWA Convention Nominations

We will accept nominations for up to (4) delegates for TNG Sector Conference and (2) Nominations for CWA Convention.  This year’s Sector Conference will be held in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. – January 14-18th, 2014 and the CWA Convention will...

New Media Investment Group celebrates gains while journalists suffer

Times are good for New Media Investment Group, parent company of GateHouse Media and the State Journal-Register, Rockford Register Star, Pekin Daily Times, Freeport Journal-Standard and Peoria Journal Star. Times are good for executives like Josh Trust, recently promoted from...