Portland Press Herald workers welcomed a memo today announcing that their parent company, MaineToday Media, is accusing the newspaper's former chief executive of misusing more than $500,000 in company money.  “Our members have been very angry about what Rich Connor did,” Maine Guild President Tom Bell said. “We trusted him. We’re angry that there wasn’t any accountability for what he did. This memo is very gratifying to our members. We want to get word out about what he did.” Photo: Former CEO Richard Connor.

The website "Newspaper Death Watch," reports that "Those who fear that crowdsourcing may soon make professional journalists obsolete should take a look" at what happened to Reddit's experiment after the Boston Marathon bombing last week -- an experiment that Reddit itself calls "a disaster."

The Chicago Guild just won back a job for an editorial assistant who has been a Guild member for 34 years at the Gary paper. She’d been working two jobs while in Gary–one for the company and another at Macy’s. When management told her she had a job in the main Sun-Times newsroom, she quit her Macy’s job to work downtown. A week later, she was laid off -- going from two jobs to no jobs. The Guild threatened to go to arbitration, and the company backed down. The EA has her job back.