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New Media shareholders share UMG’s concerns about GateHouse management

[caption id="attachment_2108" align="alignright" width="300"] Wes Edens[/caption] GateHouse Media's buying and slashing spree has led to the wholesale deterioration of once-great newspaper properties. The United Media Guild sees this damage daily while representing members at the Peoria Journal Star, State Journal-Register of...

Wall Street sours on New Media Investment Group as its asset-stripping accelerates

So why did New Media Investment Group trade for $12.61 per Monday, down from nearly $20 per share last July? Investors are starting to share the dim long-term assessment the United Media Guild offered back in 2014, after the this...

GateHouse, Digital First Media workers unite to fight for quality journalism

[caption id="attachment_2237" align="alignright" width="300"] Springfield journalists stand up for their craft.[/caption] WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 28, 2017) - A broad coalition of 1,500 unionized news workers will conduct a joint day of action on May 3 - World Press Freedom Day...

Stand with us in our fight for a free press

Now more than ever, the right to report facts and to tell the truth matters. News matters. This is why the News Guild launched the Right to Report campaign. We call on all Americans to join us in fighting attempts by government...

Lee Enterprises will plunder your Medical Retirement Account

Say, remember when we alerted our Post-Dispatch members about money they might have sitting in Medical Retirement Accounts? [caption id="attachment_2213" align="alignright" width="212"] Astrid Garcia[/caption] Never mind. Rather than merely hope that people forgot about those MRAs and never accessed them,...

New Media/GateHouse keeps buying and diminishing newspapers

Early on in his fourth quarter earnings call for investors, New Media Investment Group CEO Michael Reed singled out the Sarasota Herald-Tribune for its award-winning investigative reporting. "We are so proud of the role our publications play within the communities...

By supporting real journalism, you support real democracy

"Real News, Real Journalism" is more than a subscription slogan for the UMG-represented St. Louis Post-Dispatch. It is a civic necessity in these tumultuous times, when many rights we hold sacred -- especially the freedom of the press -- are...