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Digital Publishers Cross New Territory in Merging Companies With Unionized Staffers

A slew of recent media mergers put these employees in the middle

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It’s a new process for these digital media companies, especially if those newsrooms are unionized by different shops. Getty Images
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By Sara Jerde

December 2, 2019

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When media companies merge, questions of redundancies in operations, strategies and staffing naturally arise. Oftentimes, employees are left confused. But what happens to two newsrooms that have both unionized under different unions?

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Sara Jerde

Sara Jerde is publishing editor at Adweek, where she covers traditional and digital publishers’ business models. She also oversees political coverage ahead of the 2020 election.

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