Lowell Peterson, executive director of the Writers Guild of America East, the union representing Gawker's workers, said the deal was far different from traditional television or newspaper contracts.
In truth, I've always thought of Burchill as a sort of newsprint Alastair Campbell; just as in his heyday Campbell intimidated the Westminster lobby journalists by flecking their faces with spittle and expletives, so she seems to win newspaper contracts by playing the part of sacredly authentic monster for credulous readers.
In truth, I've always thought of Burchill as a sort of newsprint Alastair Campbell; just as in his heyday Campbell intimidated the Westminster lobby journalists by flecking their faces with spittle and expletives, so she seems to win newspaper contracts by playing the part of sacredly authentic monster for credulous readers.
Vivian Schiller, the C.E.O. of National Public Radio, noted that as newspapers contract and the volume of professional reporting on powerful institutions shrinks concurrently, the losses are being felt most heavily on the two far ends of the geographical spectrum — very local government reporting, and foreign correspondence.
He agreed with Murdoch that, with newspapers contracting and closing, they could not assume that people would read a local paper first and then fill in their business news by reading the Journal.
Employees at The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, who also went on strike Nov. 21, voted on Thursday to accept their newspaper's contract proposal.
Guardiola, 24, joined Barcelona B on Monday but according to Marca, the Spanish national daily sport newspaper, his contract was terminated "some hours later" when they became aware of pro-Real Madrid tweets, including offensive language about Catalans.
What is going on here is that the newspaper industry contracted by $7.5 billion last year in the U.S. alone, and it is looking for someone to blame rather than adapt to the new realities of information consumption.
That fits a pattern at the Times, which has more recalibrated than downsized its newsroom through buyouts and layoffs over the past five years -- even as the newspaper industry contracted and U.S. fell into an economic recession.
