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United to protect local journalism at the Fort Worth @StarTelegram #OurNewsOurHome
Fort Worth, Texas
Joined October 2020
Big news: We are back at work. Over 24 days, the Fort Worth Newsguild protested @mcclatchy’s unwillingness to negotiate fair conditions and made history as the first Texas newsroom in modern history to go on strike. 🧵
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Today, @mcclatchy employees were supposed to get paid. But, bc of an apparent logistic issue, we didn’t. The company says it’ll be fixed by tomorrow, but for today the @FortWorthGuild is taking a lunch break together. Our work has value, and we all deserve to be paid on time.
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Big news! We, the staff of @CalMatters, are unionizing! We’re taking this step with 92% of staff in support. Here’s our mission statement.
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In reporter Janet Wilson's newsroom at The Desert Sun, reporters earn as little as $37,000 a year. "In some places...employees work two or even three jobs to pay bills."
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"I live in the red month-to-month." The Record Staff Writer Nicholas Katzban has won scores of awards for his work, yet he has to sell his own possessions and constantly drain his savings to make ends meet.
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Next, Amy Roth, a reporter at the Utica Observer-Dispatch, who was scraping for coins in her sofa last week to afford gas. "Worrying about money is a way of life."
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First up, Nicole Villalpando, a health reporter at the Austin-American Statesman. She’s witnessed younger staff leaving within a year or two because their salaries aren’t enough to live in Austin. Her message to Gannett: “Invest in your journalists and it will pay off tenfold.”
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This week, hundreds of Gannett journalists wrote to corporate leadership, explaining how the company's dismal pay was hurting them and their newsrooms. Here are some of their stories:
The latest @Gannett earnings report shows the company has more than enough to go around. It’s time to share the wealth, pay reporters fairly, and get serious about rebuilding newsrooms. It’s what local news readers across the country deserve.
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THIS 👏 SHOULD 👏 NOT 👏 BE 👏HOW 👏 HARDWORKING 👏 REPORTERS 👏 HAVE 👏 TO 👏 SPEND 👏 THEIR 👏WEEKENDS 👏 Disgraceful, @Gannett.
Giuseppe Sabella, a reporter at the Palm Beach Post, spent an entire weekend delivering food for UberEats last month just to make ends meet. "I can't justify a long-term career at Gannett if something doesn't change, and fast."
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Our highly skilled Pulitzer Prize finalist journalists @statesman are currently making less than what a gas station in Texas is paying its employees. It is time to share the wealth @gannett
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Invest in local news! Pay these journalists, @Gannett!
Today, journalist across @Gannett have emailed our leaders asking for a raise. In Austin @statesman. many of our veteran journalists have not had a raise for six years or more. Some of our younger journalists qualify for low-income housing. This has to change.
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Kudos to these journalists. For the first year+ of my time covering ~affordable housing~ I qualified for some of the income-restricted units I was writing about. When I left I still couldn't afford the average 1-bedroom in the city. This work shouldn't bankrupt people.
Today, journalist across @Gannett have emailed our leaders asking for a raise. In Austin @statesman. many of our veteran journalists have not had a raise for six years or more. Some of our younger journalists qualify for low-income housing. This has to change.
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Today, we’re joining journalists across @Gannett to email company leaders asking for raises. Gannett says it values local journalism, but it doesn’t invest in it by paying the folks who do it. It’s time for a change.
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Today, journalist across @Gannett have emailed our leaders asking for a raise. In Austin @statesman. many of our veteran journalists have not had a raise for six years or more. Some of our younger journalists qualify for low-income housing. This has to change.
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This is unacceptable. Not only to layoff such a longstanding member of the newsroom, but to do so with hardly any notice is truly callous.
We are frustrated and disappointed to learn that @McClatchy has chosen to lay off one of our most veteran staffers — with less than two weeks’ notice.
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McClatchy doesn’t value local news if it doesn’t value the people who produce it. We deserve better. So do our readers.
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Meanwhile, many positions have been sitting vacant for months, leaving important beats uncovered and placing undue burdens on other members of the newsroom.
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It is extremely upsetting to see McClatchy treat an employee so callously, let alone a loyal employee who has given decades of service to this company. It is part of an alarming pattern of putting profits before people.
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We are frustrated and disappointed to learn that @McClatchy has chosen to lay off one of our most veteran staffers — with less than two weeks’ notice.
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