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Nominations for Guild officers will take place at the Annual Members Meeting.
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Company notifies Guild of editorial assistant, photo staff layoffs;
Two-time Pulitzer-winning photo director resigns in protest
Jana Collier, Cox Media Group Ohio's editor-in-chief, notified the Dayton Newspaper Guild that up to eight positions at the Dayton Daily News would be eliminated. In a Friday, Aug. 26 memo, Collier told Guild President Lou Grieco the company plans to lay off four editorial assistants and two to four photographers.
In a surprising move the following Monday, Larry Price, the paper's Pulitzer Prize-winning director of photography, resigned rather than slash up to half the photo staff. Also on Monday, Grieco sent this email to Guild-represented employees, telling members that, "we'll be monitoring this closely. Should the Company violate the posted conditions, we will file an unfair labor practice complaint with the NLRB."
Dayton blogger David Esrati first reported the layoff plan and Price's resignation. Other media outlets, including the Dayton Business journal picked up the story. The Business Journal's Ginger Christ posted this commentary on the Dayton BizBlog. The AP and journalism sites such as the well-read Romenesko have also covered the story. The Dayton Business Journal was also the first to report on Cox's plan to to consolidate copy desk operations.
Active Guild
Guild remembers MLK's fight for civil rights, workers' rights
Guild members joined thousands of other Dayton marchers in February to remember Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. King stood not only for the cause of civil rights but also for the cause of workers' rights. He was assasinated in Memphis, where he had gone to support sanitation workers striking for better working conditions.
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November 17, 2011
Dayton Newspaper Guild President Lou Grieco has been elected president of the Great Lakes District Council. Grieco previously served as vice president and is the first Dayton representative to serve in any part of The Newspaper Guild’s organization...
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October 31, 2011
TO ALL GUILD MEMBERS:
The nominating committee intends to nominate the following members for these offices at the Annual Members Meeting to be held at noon Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011, at Dayton Board of Realtors, next door to the Media Center:
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October 10, 2011
I am pleased to announce that I have appointed Robin McMacken to the Dayton Newspaper Guild Executive Board. Robin will serve in the at-large position for part-time employees, which has been open since Mark McGregor took a full time job as a reporter at the Springfield News-Sun...
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