CWA President Larry Cohen writes in the Huffington Post that the, "misleadingly-named "right to work" laws -- orchestrated by the Koch Brothers and Amway heir Dick DeVos in Michigan and moneyed extremists in other states -- are really intended to strengthen the top tenth of the 1 percent, the very wealthiest in our country, who don't want working people to have any voice in their workplaces." Art: Mike Konopacki cartoon.
More than $800 for a meal? That's just one of the Romney campaign charges -- billed to reporters covering the campaign -- that media outlets are contesting.
Kaplan management representatives have presented Guild negotiators with a 24-page contract proposal that centers on their “operational flexibility,” but offers little or nothing in the way of employee rights, not to mention salary, hours or benefits, the NY local reports. The local organized the New York-based English as a Second Language teachers earlier this year. Photo: Kaplan teachers after their organizing victory.
The Associated Press was scheduled to release its Top Stories of 2012 on Monday (the voting deadline was last Thursday), but the Sandy Hook School tragedy has forced another vote.
As 2012 nears its end, Poynter looks back at the major trends and memorable events that defined photography and photojournalism this year, including some of of the year's ethical controversies.
NABET-CWA President Jim Joyce reports that at least one of the people working with NBC News correspondent Richard Engel when they were captured last week is a NABET member -- John Kooistra of Local 11. The crew was freed Monday after five days of forced moves and death threats.
Rock Hill Herald, a newspaper in South Carolina, printed a large ad for a big gun sale in Rock Hill on the same page as its coverage of Friday’s massacre in Newtown, Connecticut. The ad, which touted Christmas discounts on Smith & Wesson assault rifles, ran in Saturday’s edition on pages A4-A5:
An ABC News producer earned the wrath of Twitter for her repeated tweets at anyone she thought might be a parent or relative of a Sandy Hook Elementary School student. The producer, Nadine Shubailat, either removed her account or Twitter suspended it. It’s now gone. But screen shots of her tweets made her the public face of outrage against the media for invading the privacy of parents in the midst of unbelievable tragedy.
