6.25.21 — The Buffalo News is hiring a Buffalo Bills reporter to join its staff, which is a Guild-represented positions. The full advertisement, with information on the opening and how to apply, is below. *** Buffalo News readers have an insatiable appetite for the Bills – we publish at least one Bills story every day, often many more … Continue reading Buffalo Bills beat reporter opening at The Buffalo News
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Business of sports reporter opening at The Buffalo News
6.25.21 -- The Buffalo News is hiring a business of sports reporter to join its staff, which is a Guild-represented positions. The full advertisement, with information on the opening and how to apply is here, and below. *** The Buffalo News seeks a reporter to cover the business of sports. Buffalo has a collection of big sports … Continue reading Business of sports reporter opening at The Buffalo News
Enterprise business reporter openings at The Buffalo News
6.25.21 -- The Buffalo News is hiring enterprise reporters to join its staff, all of which are Guild-represented positions. The full advertisement, with information on the opening and how to apply is below. *** The Buffalo News seeks enterprise reporters to join a team telling the region’s biggest story: Buffalo Niagara’s economic revival. The team will … Continue reading Enterprise business reporter openings at The Buffalo News
Guild launches new website, new mobilization campaign
4.29.2021 -- In this week’s round of bargaining, The Buffalo News/Lee Enterprises rejected the Guild’s digital jurisdiction proposal and reproposed language to dismantle our job security protections and outsource Guild work out of state and out of country. As a result, the Guild is moving forward with a campaign to raise community awareness. The campaign … Continue reading Guild launches new website, new mobilization campaign
Guild proposes two-year diversity fellowship; other proposals made by the Guild remain in limbo
4.16.21 – To assist with company efforts to diversify The Buffalo News, the Guild this week proposed a two-year diversity fellowship program for the newsroom aimed at developing journalists of color who have limited journalism experience. Meanwhile, the Guild continues to wait on responses from The News/Lee Enterprises on numerous other proposals, including those involving … Continue reading Guild proposes two-year diversity fellowship; other proposals made by the Guild remain in limbo
Company rejects Guild proposals to label fake news content
3.26.21 -- The Buffalo News/Lee Enterprises this week rejected two proposals from the Buffalo Newspaper Guild that would require the company to end its deceptive online practices. The proposals would require Lee to clearly label sponsored online content and to clearly identify stories that are written by local staff journalists. In both cases, the company … Continue reading Company rejects Guild proposals to label fake news content
Guild executive committee meeting minutes: Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021
President Sandy Tan called the meeting to order at 5:06 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021 via Zoom. Motion/Second/Carried Portman/Fairbanks to approve the minutes for both the executive and general meetings for November. Grievance Committee Report Vice President for Contract Enforcement Aaron Besecker said the grievance committee approved a grievance regarding the labeling of sponsored content. … Continue reading Guild executive committee meeting minutes: Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021
Guild executive committee meeting minutes: Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020
President Sandy Tan called the meeting to order at 5:04 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020 via Zoom. No minutes this month. Tan made a desperate plea for volunteers to join the Lonnie Hudkins Memorial Singers. Grievance Committee Report Vice President for Contract Enforcement Aaron Besecker said that a grievance in ABC was resulting in management … Continue reading Guild executive committee meeting minutes: Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020
Guild executive committee meeting minutes: Monday, Nov. 16, 2020
President Sandy Tan called the meeting to order at 5:02 p.m. Monday, Nov. 16, 2020 via Zoom. Motion/Second/Carried Tan/Leiser to approve the executive committee minutes for September. Tan reported that four sports clerks took the buyout offered by The News, while clerk Ted Wasko moved to the prepress department in a transfer that was negotiated … Continue reading Guild executive committee meeting minutes: Monday, Nov. 16, 2020
Guild general meeting minutes: Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020
President Sandy Tan called the afternoon meeting to order at noon Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020 via Zoom. Vice President for Contract Enforcement Aaron Besecker said The News rejected” a grievance related to sponsored content on BuffaloNews.com and that a situation in ABC was nearing settlement as management said work would be returned to the Guild. … Continue reading Guild general meeting minutes: Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2020
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