Word: pressroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many upwardly mobile young journalists, a successful career is one that leads from the city-hall pressroom to the statehouse beat to a national reporting job in Washington. Neal Peirce got it all backward. He started at the top, as Washington-based political editor of a respected national magazine. Today he covers city hall and the statehouse...
...weather in New Delhi was seasonably mild last week, with temperatures mostly in the 70s. If Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had had her way, however, it would have been a lot hotter in the pressroom of the Indian Express (circ. 400,000), the flagship of India's largest newspaper chain. Reason: government officials tried a few weeks ago to rip out the paper's air-conditioning system and auction it off to satisfy a disputed tax bill. Only a last-minute court injunction saved Express workers from a daily steam bath...
...addition to the initial pressroom violence, the strike has been marked by beatings and threats to nonstrikers, and three shots were fired through the Post's office windows. Graham was burned in effigy at a union rally, and when she saw a photo of a placard reading PHIL...
...Pressroom Control. In its proposals for a new contract this year, the Post offered the pressmen a 25% increase in the basic wage in three years and a $400,000 bonus, to be divided among them. In return, the paper asked to be given back control of the pressroom. The union has refused. Last week the Post began hiring 140 permanent replacements for the pressmen, while a dozen or so strikers have accepted the Post's offer to return to work "as individuals." Company executives believe some of the unions may return to work as early as next month...
...Knight chain, have concentrated their efforts on the Post's labor costs, which are scheduled to rise by $5 million this year alone. Despite union opposition to labor-saving machinery, the paper bought new photographic composition equipment and began installing it in administrative offices two floors above the pressroom. It also started training about 125 employees to produce the paper during a walkout. Much of that instruction was received at the Newspaper Production and Research Center, an impressively equipped printing school in Oklahoma City supported by the Post and 200 other papers and known among union members...