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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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