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Talks break down as Chronicle Herald bosses tender offer worse than proposed four months ago
By Teuila Fuatai for rabble Bosses at the Canada’s largest independent newspaper are proposing more staff cuts and salary reductions than those that led to a newsroom strike four months ago, the Halifax Typographical Union says. The union (HTU), which… -
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While workers strike, Chronicle Herald starts hiring
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor The Chronicle Herald is hiring while its newsroom staff pickets outside. A job ad for multiple team editors and a content writer based in Sydney, N.S., was posted on the Chronicle Herald website. The team… -
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The silence of the Chronicle Herald CEO
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor Eighteen days into the Chronicle Herald strike, and all of the statements from Mark Lever have come in the pages of the newspaper he runs. The CEO and president of Halifax Herald Ltd. has… -
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Students could be key in Halifax journalists’ strike
By Errol Salamon for CWA Canada Journalism students and recent graduates are well placed to support Chronicle Herald newsroom workers in Halifax, who have been on strike since Jan. 23. They can collaborate with newspaper workers as Ontario students did… -
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Striking Chronicle Herald journalists start their own news website
By H.G. Watson, Associate Editor Chronicle Herald staff are once again reporting, even though they are still on strike. Local Xpress, a news website entirely run by the journalists, officially went online Jan. 30 after a few teases in…
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