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New York Times Co. has given unions at The Boston Globe through the weekend to agree to $20 million cuts or face closure, media sources said. Times Co. extended a May 1 deadline to Sunday at midnight amid marathon negotiations with the Newspaper Guild and three unions representing press operators, delivery-truck drivers and workers who insert ads and editorial material into newspapers, MarketWatch reported Sunday. The Guild represents more than 600 editorial staffers while the three other...

Earl Caldwell, Peggy Peterman, Lynn Norment and Larry Whiteside to be honored at annual ceremony WASHINGTON, May 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) will induct four outstanding journalists who made integral contributions to journalism and civil rights into its Hall of Fame at a ceremony to be held on Friday, August 7, 2009 at the 2009 NABJ Annual Convention and Career Fair in Tampa. "These remarkable individuals endured great challenges so...

Globe workers joined by community, cultural and labor leaders to support free speech and The Globe BOSTON, April 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Who: Brian Mooney, Boston Globe reporterBella English, Boston Globe reporterMike Ross, Boston City Council PresidentDavid Jackson, Nieman Fellow and Pulitzer Prize winning reporter from the Chicago TribuneWilliam McGuinness, editor, Daily Collegian and University of Massachusetts Amherst studentDorothy Clark, Boston Globe news copy editorTim Flynn, Boston...

Signers determined to protect newspaper from threat of closure BOSTON, April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The Boston Newspaper Guild today launched a petition to save The Boston Globe. The petition, which can be viewed at http://www.bgol.org/savetheglobe.html, expresses support for Boston Globe staff and calls on the New York Times Company to share responsibility with Globe workers to save the newspaper. The New York Times has threatened to shut down The Boston Globe unless it comes up with $20...

BOSTON, April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The Boston Newspaper Guild today offered to negotiate immediate, significant labor cost savings measures with the New York Times Co. and Boston Globe management. The Guild is committed to preserving the vital community asset that is the Boston Globe, while at the same time ensuring that the hard-working men and women who make it one of the premier newspapers in America are treated fairly. This is a period of tremendous challenge to the entire media...

Union mailers at The Boston Globe are facing possible pay cuts under cost-cutting measures by The New York Times Co., a union official says. Teamsters Local 1 head Mary White said Times Co. wants $5 million worth of cuts that could lead to Globe mailers losing 25 percent of their wages, along with all holiday and sick pay, the Globe reported Saturday. The requested givebacks, which would also end company pension payments and significant healthcare plan cuts, are part of $20 million in...

Union leaders at The Boston Globe said Friday the New York Times Co. has said it will close the Globe unless unions agree to $20 million in concessions. Daniel Totten, who represents business and editorial workers as head of the Boston Newspaper Guild, and Ralph Giallanella, secretary-treasurer of the Teamsters Local 259, said the company plans to negotiate concessions with individual unions, the Globe reported. Totten said employees may be asked to accept pay cuts and the end of company...

The headmaster of a Boston private school says contrary to rumors her prestigious institution is not home to so-called vampires. Boston Latin School administrator Lynne Mooney Teta said in a notice Thursday that despite recent rumors of so-called vampires being present at her school, Boston Latin is free of any of the fictional blood-sucking undead, The Boston Globe said. I seek your cooperation in redirecting your energy toward the learning objectives of day. Please do not sensationalize or...

The New York Times Co. is being sued by GateHouse Media, one of the largest publishers of community newspapers, for copyright infringement.Gatehouse claims that the Boston Globe website, owned by The New York Times Co., uses online material from Gatehouse without permission.According to GateHouse, the Boston.com website is taking GateHouse newspaper headlines from its "Wicked Local" websites.  In addition, the company alleges that links from Boston.com to "Wicked Local" stories bypasses...

A Massachusetts man says he went through seven pairs of shoes walking cross country in his quest to collect messages for the next U.S. president. It's been a long 10 months, said B.J. Hill, who crossed the finish line in Boston Saturday and planned to make his way to Washington Sunday, by car and bus, with three thick journals packed with messages. It's important, I think, for people here in Massachusetts to see what issues are on the minds of people in Iowa, for example, and for people in...