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Roanoke Times union, Lee settle on new contract
Minimum full-time pay rate to increase by 12%
The Roanoke Times newsroom union said Tuesday it has agreed on a new two-year contract with owner Lee Enterprises, following a brief picket line last week. Members of the Timesland
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Roanoke Times union pickets over wages, mileage
News guild says owner Lee Enterprises won't budge in negotiations
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The Roanoke Times’ newsroom union staged its first-ever picket line briefly Monday as a message to the newspaper’s owners, Lee Enterprises, which the union says won’t budge on requested salary
Lee Enterprises rejects Alden’s $144M purchase offer
Buy would have consolidated 33 Va. newspapers under hedge fund
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Lee Enterprises Inc.’s board unanimously rejected Alden Global Capital’s $144 million buyout offer made last month, saying it “grossly undervalues” the company and its newspapers, which include 31 publications in
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Newsroom unions urge Lee to reject Alden’s offer
$144M purchase would make hedge fund owner of 30+ Va. newspapers
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A dozen Lee Enterprises newsroom unions, including three in Virginia, wrote an open letter to company management Monday, urging Lee to reject Alden Global Capital’s purchase offer of approximately $144
Newsroom jobs eliminated at Free Lance-Star, News & Advance
Cuts follow layoffs at Richmond, Roanoke and Charlottesville papers
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Two more Virginia newspapers — The Free Lance-Star in Fredericksburg and The News & Advance in Lynchburg — have dismissed employees, following newsroom layoffs last week at three other publications
Richmond Times-Dispatch, Roanoke Times, Daily Progress see newsroom layoffs
Lee Enterprises eliminates newsroom jobs at newspapers, unions say
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Updated Sept. 11 At least five newsroom staffers at the Richmond Times-Dispatch were told Friday that they were being laid off by owner Lee Enterprises. Four people laid off were
Lee Enterprises plans newsroom cuts at Virginia publications
Daily Progress copy editors' jobs moving to Midwest hub
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The Daily Progress newspaper in Charlottesville will lay off its four-person copy desk in early October, as Iowa-based owner Lee Enterprises eliminates local jobs in favor of a consolidated copy