All smiles and ready to stand together! We're gearing up to head back to the bargaining table for a fair contract that ensures we can keep producing Pulitzer-winning journalism. Watch the web for updates 🗞️
Today the editorial workers of the Daily Herald in suburban Chicago have formed a union, the Daily Herald News Guild. Follow us on @dhnewsguild on X and Instagram. We're also on Facebook.
Today the editorial workers of the Daily Herald in suburban Chicago have formed a union, the Daily Herald News Guild. Follow us on @dhnewsguild on X and Instagram. We're also on Facebook.
Cutting that hurts Chicago. Our readers and these journalists deserve better. We call on the Tribune to finally explain these layoffs.
And we demand the newspaper show greater respect for Muslim journalists in the future. (5/5)
Nine of our Chicago Tribune Guild colleagues have left our newspaper since our owner, Alden Global Capital, initiated a series of layoffs, buyouts & reassignments two months ago.
Three of them were laid off. Each of our laid off colleagues is Muslim. (1/5)
They helped the city better understand different experiences. They created dignified representation for people who too often don’t get that from media.
Over and over, they told stories that other reporters just can’t tell. (4/5)
@lizzie_kane17@sean_hammond@AhmadShanzeh@radbrowndads Pinar Istek anchored the night shift on the photo desk, directing after-hours visual coverage of breaking news. She is a proactive leader who looks out for the whole photo desk and was an essential part of dozens of breaking stories.
Today, @chicagotribune laid off five guild staff members in a roughly 10% cut to our newsroom. These layoffs underscore a sad but unsurprising failure of leadership by Alden Global Capital, our hedge fund owner, and local management.
@lizzie_kane17@sean_hammond@AhmadShanzeh .@radbrowndads went deep on all angles of Chicago’s vibrant food scene way beyond the plate — the economic, cultural and political winds that power it, but also the fun and community that springs up around it.