Company rejects Guild proposals to label fake news content
Friday, March 26, 2021 by The Guild
3.26.21 — The Buffalo News/Lee Enterprises this week rejected two proposals from the Buffalo Newspaper Guild that would require the company to end its deceptive online practices. The proposals would require Lee to clearly label sponsored online content and to clearly identify stories that are written by local staff journalists.
In both cases, the company said the Guild has no jurisdiction over the company’s online products and therefore has no input over ending practices that the Guild has argued are unethical, deceptive to readers, and harmful to The Buffalo News’ brand and credibility.
“We were hopeful that News management would agree with us that ethics and integrity in journalism matters, but it doesn’t look that way,” said Guild president Sandy Tan. “Let’s just add this to the pile of reasons why digital jurisdiction is so important. If the company isn’t going to care about deceiving and insulting readers, then at least the Guild will.” continue»
Monday, March 8, 2021 by The Guild
3.8.21 — The Buffalo News is hiring a page designer in its sports department, which is a Guild-represented position. The full advertisement, with information on the opening and how to apply is below.
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At The Buffalo News, design matters. Given the competition for readers — print and digital — design is one of the best ways to make our news and information easy to use and one of the best ways to make our publications stand out.
Saturday, January 9, 2021 by The Guild
The Guild has been informed that The Buffalo News will shut down two weekly Sun papers, and merge two others, resulting in the layoff of two part-time Guild reporters and one full-time Guild page designer.
One Sun editor will also be laid off. Two other Guild Sun reporters also recently resigned.
Both the Twin Cities Sun and Lancaster-Depew Sun papers will fold on Jan. 22. In addition, the West Seneca Sun and Orchard Park Sun papers will be combined into a single weekly paper.
The Hamburg Sun will continue unchanged.
Wednesday, December 23, 2020 by The Guild
A version of this letter by President Sandy Tan was previously emailed to Guild members and summarizes the many accomplishments of the Guild over the past year as we look back on 2020.
At a time when we’ve all been working under some of the most stressful conditions we’ve ever endured, the Buffalo Newspaper Guild has helped make it possible for us to continue to do great work while safeguarding members’ livelihoods and working conditions. continue»
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