Rich LordMuch of the story of the #Pittsburgh media landscape can be told through this one screenshot. It's a Tribune-Review story written by a former Post-Gazette associate editor about the P-G's owners buying the City Paper ... and it's illustrated with a pic of a story co-created by PublicSource. (Disclosure: I have worked for the Trib, P-G and CP and now work for PublicSource. So I guess it captures my career, too.)
Mlancia@richlord I’m surprised to see higher profile PG reporters still writing for the paper. I thought the reporters were one of the unions on strike. Even if they aren’t, I’m surprised that they don’t seem to be getting much blowback.
@mlancia As a former P-Ger who watches the bylines, here's my analysis: Most of the sports desk crossed the picket lines. Most of the news desk and copy/web desks walked off. The business desk split. Of those who walked, a meaningful minority have ended up at the Trib or elsewhere. Here's the latest strike dispatch in the Pittsburgh Union Progress https://www.unionprogress.com/2023/01/06/post-gazette-strike-update-picket-line-newspaper-guild/
Striking Post-Gazette workers resume picketing, leafleting after quiet holiday season - Pittsburgh Union Progress
Following a quiet couple of weeks in which striking Pittsburgh Post-Gazette workers mostly paused their actions to celebrate the holidays, picketing, leafleting and other actions aimed at ending the strike largely resumed this week. Small handfuls of striking workers picketed outside the PG’s North Shore newsroom and Clinton press facility in the last days of […]
@richlord Thanks for the reply. The names I noticed cover sports. One of the names also has a daily talk show on local sports radio. I thought that person had a union leadership role in the past, but I could be wrong. Regardless, it’s disappointing to see.
My Dad was a paper handler there for 35years. My uncles and brother also worked there. I worked there while in college. Sad to see what’s become of it.
@mlancia When I was there, the sports reporters were always the least connected to the union, maybe in part because they were often on the road, rarely in the newsroom and only sporadically represented at union meetings. And yeah, there was a time when being at the P-G meant having a second family (or an overlapping family in some cases like yours) but that changed (at least for me) around 2019.