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For those don't remember, @LeeEntNews eliminated roughly a quarter of its @OWHnews Omaha World-Herald newsroom staff earlier this year. @owhguild #LeeUnionsRaisingAwareness
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Something has to change. @LeeUnions launched a campaign to highlight the cuts by the company and how it's preventing communities from getting the news they deserve. #LeeUnionsRaisingAwareness newsguild.org/lee-enterprise…
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We at @RNPA_union - w/ @LeeUnions at other @LeeEntNews-owned newspapers - want you know this retreat from print is the latest assault on news-gathering and news-distribution.
News staffs continue to shrink, jobs are shipped to out of state - and readers and customers get less.
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Going down to a three-day print week so that our newsroom has more time for stronger journalism is one thing. But all the guild has heard from readers is that they think we’re cutting services just to cut services. What reason do they have to believe otherwise?
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Newsroom unions across Lee Enterprises (@LeeEntNews) are protesting the company's decision to cut many newspapers - at least 40 so far, incl. 6 in Virginia - to 3X/week print.
More details in my May 28 @CardinalNewsVA story:
cardinalnews.org/2023/05/28/…
We at the Timesland News Guild want to express solidarity with the newsrooms across the country affected by Lee Enterprises’ poorly managed print reductions.
#LeeUnionsRaisingAwareness
We at the Timesland News Guild want to express solidarity with the newsrooms across the country affected by Lee Enterprises’ poorly managed print reductions.
#LeeUnionsRaisingAwareness
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Those former dailies are the Bristol Herald Courier, The Daily Progress of C’ville, the Star-Exponent in Culpeper, the Register & Bee in Danville, the Martinsville Bulletin, and the News Virginian in W’ pro.
@LeeEntNews says readers can now expect 3x/week Sunday-type reading.
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Lee’s cuts are coming to Idaho as it cuts the (Twin Falls) Times-News’ print edition to three days a week. #LeeUnionsRaisingAwareness
Journalists across the country are speaking out this week against destructive business decisions by media chain Lee Enterprises. Chronic disinvestment and @LeeEntNews' latest move to slash daily printing of many newspapers is a recipe for failure. #LeeUnionsRaisingAwareness
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The Daily News just made the change to printing three days a week. The rollout so far has not made us less worried about Lee's short-sighted moves and lack of real investment in our staff.
#LeeUnionsRaisingAwareness
Journalists across the country are speaking out this week against destructive business decisions by media chain Lee Enterprises. Chronic disinvestment and @LeeEntNews' latest move to slash daily printing of many newspapers is a recipe for failure. #LeeUnionsRaisingAwareness
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Lee Enterprises, in its latest move to drain resources from one of its properties, has gotten rid of our award-winning news design desk at @TheBuffaloNews. You may have noticed if you’ve seen the pages of the newspaper lately. #LeeUnionsRaisingAwareness 🧵
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Omaha is still printed seven days a week, at least for the foreseeable future, but most of @LeeEntNews papers are being cut to three days a week. These drastic cuts don't serve the company, the investors, the readers or the employees. #LeeUnionsRaisingAwareness
Journalists across the country are speaking out this week against destructive business decisions by media chain Lee Enterprises. Chronic disinvestment and @LeeEntNews' latest move to slash daily printing of many newspapers is a recipe for failure. #LeeUnionsRaisingAwareness
Timesland News Guild retweeted
Journalists across the country are speaking out this week against destructive business decisions by media chain Lee Enterprises. Chronic disinvestment and @LeeEntNews' latest move to slash daily printing of many newspapers is a recipe for failure. #LeeUnionsRaisingAwareness
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JOURNALISM IS ACTIVISM.
I advocate for the truth. I advocate for accountability. I advocate for communal responsibility of one another.
Double co-sign @AsteadWH here. Journalism is not neutral. When a reporter covers failings of government or industry, they do so because they believe in and want accountability, they want to protect the public, or vulnerable people. That's a form of activism.
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Lee Enterprises is slashing production at many of its print newspapers in favor of generic, user unfriendly digital platforms that actually downplay local news. This wrongheaded and ongoing disinvestment by @LeeEntNews is a recipe for failure, not success.
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These #Va newspapers - all cutting back on the number of days they’re available in print - are owned by @LeeEntNews, parent of @RTDNEWS, which will continue, for now, to produce a print edition seven days a week. cardinalnews.org/2023/05/28/…
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STATEMENT: The Star-Tribune on Sunday announced we're going down to a three-day print week. We were also told we're losing our last customer service representative.
Here's the Casper News Guild's response.
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Mac Jansen!
The captain scores the game-winner less than 3 minutes into overtime.
Roanoke wins its first President's Cup title with a 2-1 win in Game 4.
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Aaron McFarling of The Roanoke Times and Luke Zahlmann of The Gazette in Colorado Springs tied for first place in the 2022 Associated Press Sports Editors contest in the Division C Short Feature category. apsportseditors.com/aaron-mc…
