Unionized Free Press journalists sell out designers, copy-editors with new contract
Free Press newsroom employees approved a contract that will terminate the jobs of follow union members.
Newspaper Guild: Free Press can’t force staffers to reapply for jobs
Gannett, the media company that owns the Detroit Free Press, is forcing employees at some newspapers to reapply for new jobs as part of a bold cost-cutting move.
Detroit Free Press announces further cutbacks, to lay off 5 staffers
The latest layoffs come just three days after colleagues said goodbye to two esteemed reporters at a going-away party.
Updated: Free Press to lay off reporters, cut newsroom
By Steve Neavling The Detroit Free Press plans to sizably reduce its staff of reporters, and one of its top editors is leaving, Editor and Publisher Paul Anger told trepidation newspaper employees today. Anger said the cuts “won’t be tiny,” according to three reporters and an editor who were at the meeting. Another blow to […]