After working for the Press-Telegram for nearly two years without a contract—during which a large percentage of the paper’s newsgathering staff was laid off, transferred or quit—the union representing reporters, photographers and designers at the Long Beach daily has reached a tentative agreement with the paper’s Denver-based corporate owner.
The Southern California Media Guild announced the [...]

The decimated newsroom at the Press-Telegram will likely get even decimated-er today, when three more people are due to be laid off.
MediaNews Corp., the Denver-based corporation that owns the Long Beach daily and several other newspapers throughout California, severely leveraged itself to forge this chain of First Amendment businesses—and the profession of journalism and the [...]