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by Sheila Lennon
'Bottom-up' journalism from the pros

June 20, 2002 • Today's weblog

Byline strike (It's a movement!) : Some Providence Journal/projo.com stories lack bylines today as members of the Providence Newspaper Guild withhold their names from their stories to protest lack of a contract since Dec. 31, 1999. (Stories may be bylined "Journal Staff Writer.") The Washington Post is also currently publishing under a byline strike "until further notice" (Don't Write for Web, Post Reporters Urged).

Cluetrain Manifesto co-author Doc Searls had never heard of a byline strike; Jenny The Shifted Librarian is interested. And now Dave Hyndman is blogging Canadian byline strikes:

"On Tuesday, articles and photos by members of the Ottawa Newspaper Guild began appearing in the Ottawa Citizen without the names of staffers... to protest the firing earlier this week of Ottawa Citizen publisher Russell Mills by CanWest Global Communications... Mills has said he was fired for publishing an article that investigated Prime Minister Jean Chretien and an editorial that called for Chretien to resign. "

In his e-Journal, Dan Gillmor (San Jose, Calif., Mercury News / SiliconValley.com) blogs a headline that's probably never been written before: Byline Strike Covered by Blog. Jim Romanesko's Media News is pointing here today, too. Very cool.

And now Cory Doctorow of EFF and BoingBoing is explaining byline strikes. And curmudgeon Dave Copeland, a business reporter for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, shows up, too.

We ink-stained wretches have seldom been in finer company.
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