Buffalo Newspaper Guild

Guild members participate in annual Kids Day

Wednesday, May 15, 2019 by The Guild

Members of the Guild sold Kids Day editions of The Buffalo News once again this year to benefit Oishei Children’s Hospital.

Guild members volunteer each year at the corner of Jefferson Avenue and East Ferry Street to sell papers in the early morning hours.

On Tuesday, April 30, 2019, thanks to decent weather, enthusiastic volunteers and generous souls, the Guild’s Kids Day volunteers raised $304. This is our highest total in more than a decade at least.

Reporter Maki Becker sells papers at Jefferson and East Ferry. (Photo by Sharon Cantillon)

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Guild rebounds from buyout losses with new Editorial hires, growth of Suns

Saturday, January 26, 2019 by Colin Dabkowski

After one of the most difficult summers in recent memory, the Guild and The News are in rebuilding mode.

And while we are still processing the repercussions of our colleagues’ departures, there are reasons to hope for better days ahead. Foremost among them is the addition of several new faces to the newsroom, which has welcomed five new full-time staff reporters and editors — largely in the decimated sports department —
and four part-time print and digital reporters.

Our new members have brought a welcome dose of energy into a battered workplace. Their work will likely be instrumental in a new initiative spearheaded by management and supported by the Guild to reinvent The News as a collection of digital businesses and to build subscription and other sources of revenue into a sustainable future. (More on this in a future issue of the Frontier Reporter.)

In the meantime, the Guild has worked hard to guard the provisions of our contract, to extend our jurisdiction  to newly launched products like the Kenmore and Tonawanda Sun newspapers and to help our members through a challenging time in the industry.

This issue of the Frontier Reporter — in stark contrast to the last one — takes a more optimistic tone as we attempt to work together with management to put The News back on solid ground.

— Colin Dabkowski, vice president of mobilization and communication

Read the full version of the Frontier Reporter here:

Sun paper expansion results in more hiring, raises for Sun-based Guild members

Friday, September 21, 2018 by Colin Dabkowski

9.19.18 — The Buffalo News is moving forward with its expansion of weekly Sun papers, committing to launching three additional weeklies in addition to the Hamburg Sun and Kenmore-Tonawanda Sun papers that operate now.

And that is good news for the Guild.

Next month, The News will launch the Orchard Park Sun, the Lancaster-Depew Sun and the West Seneca Sun papers. That expansion will involve the hiring of two new reporters and an additional full-time page designer, all of whom are covered under a new agreement reached between the Guild and management.

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