Eight Guild members facing layoff as Post-Dispatch outsources its union copy editing and design jobs

[Sherman A1]

In a move the United Media Guild had long feared, Lee Enterprises announced it is moving the design and copy-editing work at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch to its design/editing hub in Munster, Ind., continuing the company’s looting and decimation through greed-driven staff cuts and consolidation.

Lee Enterprises’ Executive Chairman Mary Junck has overseen the layoffs of hundreds of journalists while enriching herself with more than $40 million in compensation.

“As far as I can tell, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch has no permanent city hall reporter, no science reporter and no education reporter,” UMG member and retired Post-Dispatch reporter Michael Sorkin said in a Facebook post about the latest consolidation. “And soon it will have no copy editors or national/international news editors – the editing and headlines will be done remotely, in Munster, Indiana.”

One way loyal newspaper readers can fight back, Sorkin says, is to remain subscribers.

https://labortribune.com/eight-guild-members-facing-layoff-as-post-dispatch-outsources-its-union-copy-editing-and-design-jobs

[justhanginon]

1. St. Louis Post Dispatch use to be a great paper.

When it was sold to a corporation that published shitty little local journals. I suspected its time was over. It used to be must reading and I especially looked forward to the sunday editions. They had good reporters on the national scene and they soon were all let go in favor of crap stories. I've not bought one in a long time but when I see them on the news rack I have to laugh. The price has gone up substantially and the paper looks like it has about ten pages in it. A far cry from what it used to be. No thanks!