Striking Reporters Keep The News Going On The Web
from the more-labor-stuff dept
After never talking about labor issues, here's a second labor-related post in less than a week. Striking reporters from two of Seattle's major newspapers have continued to publish news on their own site on the web. In the past, striking reporters have been known to put out their own papers, but the web makes it even easier. After the discussion last week about unions, I'm wondering if some people think that all these reporters should simply be fired for trying to get better wages and benefits. Update: Apparently, there's even more to this story. The original newspapers are still publishing stories, and they're also using the web to get more information out. The newspapers are still planning on printing paper editions (though they'll be smaller than usual), but will point readers to their websites for more complete news.
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The future of papers
Does anyone think some papers might head in this direction as the general population becomes more wired? What I'm referring to is for papers to print a 'compressed' edition, with longer articles printed on a web site. I don't think it'll happen in the next five years, or really even in ten, (or possibly ever) partly because the Baby Boomers still like to grab a paper and aren't on-line as much. But as Gen-Xers and younger who grew up with computers and work every day with them grow older and run stuff more and more, might papers want to run more on-line than off? It certainly would save on materials, if nothing else.
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Re: The future of papers
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Big deal -- this was the case when the SF papers w
Wired must be short of stories. What's next: House burns, fire department called"?
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How to get info on workers trying to secure union
A great way to get news on what unionization efforts there are at and for "dot.com" workers is to try these two websites:
www.labourstart.org
and
www.labourstart.org/usa for US specific info
as well as trying
www.yahoo.com
and plugging in "labor" and seeing what news articles appear at the top of the search respopnse list, and then doing the same, after perusing the articles, with "union" and then the same with "workers."
You'd be amased what you'll find.
The AFL-CIO website as well as
www.workingfamilies.com
as well as
www.workingforchange.com
are all places with worthwhile information.
Please let me know if the above is helpful.
And feel free to share it with others!
>> Arieh L.
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