[Image-1] This past Friday the Chronicle Herald published an article detailing the alleged brutality of refugee children at a local elementary school. It was widely and strongly criticized. By Saturday night the most outrageous passage—which quoted an anonymous source who said a refugee child choked a classmate with a chain while yelling “Muslims rule the […]
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Update: Chronicle Herald has a reason for dropping that wage equality clause
UPDATE: On their new labour relations mini-site the Chronicle Herald explains the rationale for removing the “equal pay” clause from the union’s contract. “While the clause was removed, it was replaced with even stronger language that reflects the laws of the province. What we have proposed is, in fact, more inclusive than what the union has […]
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Former Fort St. John mayor strikebreaking for the Chronicle Herald
[Image-1] Given the state of journalism, broke young freelancers taking up the Chronicle Herald’s offer to work as replacement labour during a union strike is understandable, if not regrettable. It’s a little more surprising when the man crossing the picket line to cover city hall turns out to himself be a former mayor. Bruce Lantz, […]
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The Chronicle Herald is getting snippy on Twitter
[Image-1] The president and CEO of Canada’s largest independently owned newspaper appears to be embracing new media by getting into Twitter fights with readers. Over the last 14 hours, the @CH_MLever account has been on the defensive against critics of the Herald’s managerial decisions in the wake of Saturday’s union strike and layoff notices. The […]
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Freelance reporting comes with some heavy costs
[Image-1] When a newspaper starts to crumble—as seen recently with the Chronicle Herald—the burden falls squarely on the journalists on staff, who face apparently endless cuts and ever-increasing workloads. But the unravelling of traditional media has also affected those who aren’t even employees: that is, freelance journalists. According to an email obtained by the CBC, […]
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Chronicle Herald union votes to strike
[Image-1] Members of the Halifax Typographical Union overwhelmingly voted in favour of strike action this past weekend. The HTU said 98.3 percent of members voted in favour, with only one vote against and one not present. The union represents 61 newsroom employees at the Chronicle Herald. Two days have now been set aside this week […]
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How the Chronicle Herald is demolishing its newsroom
[Image-1] It really sucks being a journalist these days. That’s more true than ever at the Chronicle Herald. Beleaguered newsroom staff at the daily paper are facing another blow as management walked away from the conciliation table late last week after asking unionized employees for aggressive cuts. The paper’s latest offer to newsroom staff will […]
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How is the Chronicle Herald still being printed?
[Image-1] Sharp-eyed readers may have noticed a series of articles in the Chronicle Herald about the Chronicle Herald’s ongoing labour lockout. Thirteen pressroom employees belonging to the daily paper of record have now been locked out of their jobs for close to a week. “So who’s printing the papers?” you might ask ironically while reading […]
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Herald: Where are they now?
[Image-1] It’s tough out there. That’s especially true for journalists facing a shrivelling job market. Right now, nobody knows that better than the dozens of newsroom employees cast-off from the Chronicle Herald last year. Back in December, president and CEO Mark Lever eagerly told the media there were only two “voluntary” layoffs, in contrast to […]
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Best Political Cartoonist
Editor’s note: With his latest Best Political Cartoonist win in 2009, Bruce MacKinnon was elevated to the Best of Halifax Hall of Fame. We reserve our Hall of Fame—-a special honour that retires both the winner and the category they won in—-for the iconic figures, people who have owned their title year in and out, […]
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Letters from the Herald‘s editor
Hi Stephen, I guess this is what happens when a person doesn’t make time for a sit-down interview with you, eh? I’ve attached a rundown of basic journalistic errors and omissions in your piece that appeared today in The Coast. I’d expect some of them from a first-year student, but from such an eminent professor, […]