By John Geluardi
Three Contra Costa Times reporters, who say they were targeted for layoffs once they succeeded in forming a union, filed an appeal last week with the federal labor board after the board rejected their initial complaint for lack of evidence.
Last July, just weeks after organizers established the first newspaper union to be formed in the United States in over 40 years, managers laid off 29 newsroom employees, 21 of whom happened to be involved in union organizing efforts. The
A former reporter at the Monterey County Herald has sued the Northern California newspaper and its parent company, MediaNews Group, alleging that he was underpaid and then fired because of his race.
MediaNews, headed by press mogul Dean Singleton (pictured), is also a major presence in the Bay Area media market, and owns newspapers including the San Jose Mercury News, Contra Costa Times, Oakland Tribune, and Marin Independent Journal.
Andre Briscoe, a black man who worked at the Herald from Au
A lawyer for MediaNews Group says the newspaper chain plans to deny allegations of discrimination in a lawsuit filed earlier this month by a former reporter at the Monterey County Herald.
Andre Briscoe, a black man who worked at the MediaNews-owned Herald from August 2005 through January 2008, asserts in the lawsuit that he was paid less than other reporters because of his race and fired in retaliation for complaining about discrimination to the paper's human resources department. He is suing t
Media mogul Dean Singleton is again seeking inroads to San Francisco's daily newspaper market, according to a report today in the Denver Business Journal.Will joint ad sales bring happy days back?​Apparently Singleton's MediaNews Group -- owner of legion Bay Area newspapers, including the Oakland Tribune, Marin Independent Journal, Contra Costa Times, and San Jose Mercury News -- is forming an ad-selling partnership with Philip Anschutz' Clarity Media Group, which owns the Examiner, a free tab
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