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Media: New site, same as the old site

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , on February 25, 2009 by Billy Dennis

The Pekin Daily Times is boasting a spiffy new Web site. It’s pretty much the same format as every other GateHouse Media site. I’m surprised it took ‘em this long to change over.

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Media: Pekin Times workers join union

Posted in On the Media with tags , , on October 7, 2008 by Billy Dennis

Welcome to the club:

By a vote of 24 to 7, the 35 person unit of the Pekin Times in Pekin, Illinois, have chosen the St. Louis Newspaper Guild as their bargaining representative.

Folks at the Peoria Journal Star were worried that GateHouse Media would go after the union. Perhaps the company too busy surviving their own poor business plan to right off a union. Methinks the fine folks at TimesNewspapers ought to consider doing the same thing.

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