Chicago Sun-Times lays off photographer Jon Sall, who then wins awards.
Tag: James Tyree
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Negotiations between Sun-Times Media and the Chicago Newspaper Guild reach an impasse
Negotiations between Sun-Times Media and the Chicago Newspaper Guild reach an impasse
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The high price of creating good journalism
How Sun-Times Media left the Chicago News Cooperative behind
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Lynne Stiefel Leaves Pioneer and the Newspaper Guild
Lynne Stiefel leaves Pioneer Press and the Chicago Newspaper Guild to work for the village of Glenview
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Layoffs of People We Know
More layoffs include the Daily Herald’s Ted Cox. Jim Bouton, “Ball Four”
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A Letter to the Newspaper Guild at the Joliet Herald News
Again courtesy of the management of the Sun-Times Media Group, I’ve been shown a second letter from the nonunion employees of a STMG daily to the paper’s Newspaper Guild members. This one’s from the Joliet Herald News and it carries 28 signatures. As with the first letter, which originated at Indiana’s Post-Tribune, the the message […]
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Nonunion Employees to Guild at the Post-Tribune: What About Us?
The fault line between the union and nonunion employees of the Sun-Times Media Group couldn’t be clearer than it now appears to be at the Post-Tribune, the group’s daily in Lake County, Indiana.
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Gather News and Bust the Union
Some lively suggestions for the Sun-Times Media Group from a lively former employee
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“There is, as of today, only one bidder” — Halbreich
In Tuesday’s memo to the troops, interim Sun-Times Media Group CEO Jeremy Halbreich asserted that despite reports that somebody new is talking about entering next week’s bankruptcy court auction, “there is, as of today, only one bidder for the Company’s assets.” And that’s financier James Tyree’s investment group, whose leader “has repeatedly expressed his enthusiasm […]
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Jeremy Halbreich Responds
The interim CEO of Sun-Times Media Group has sent his 1,800 employees a memo telling them that even if September 29, Tuesday, isn’t a a formal deadline, it’s still pretty damned important. Jeremy Halbreich had been saying that Tuesday was the day by which all the STMG unions had to sign off on terms demanded […]
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Jim Tyree Responds
In the difficult passage of the Sun-Times Media Group from its present owners to a group of investors led by financier James Tyree, Thursday was a particularly awkward day. First interim CEO Jeremy Halbreich issued a statement insisting on the inflexibility of a September 29 deadline for the STMG unions to approve the new working […]
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Bad Timing
Jeremy Halbreich, interim ceo of the Sun-Times Media Group, picked a bad day to explain the facts of life to his employees.
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First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All the Columnists
Could less star power and more depth save the Sun-Times?
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A Warning to the Troops — from the CEO of the Sun-Times Media Group
The Newspaper Guild membership of the Sun-Times meets at 6 PM Tuesday and may vote to accept reject the harsh terms presented by the management of the Sun-Times Media Group as the price that must be paid if the company is to continue to exist.