Not quite two months after closing a deal that put The Dallas Morning News under Hearst’s ownership, the newspaper’s union tells us 26 people will be laid off.
The Dallas News Guild says it received notice Tuesday that its new parent company is eliminating the entire copy desk, including sports. The Guild also says the company plans to outsource its print page production. (In newsrooms, copy editors review what reporters write for accuracy, brevity and grammar, but in some papers, including the News, they also design newspaper pages.) This move will eliminate 26 positions from the newsroom. This violates the three-year collective bargaining agreement the Guild had struck with DallasNews Corp. in 2023. Among several concessions negotiated between the Guild and the News, the contract limits reductions in force to 20 positions. The union says that Hearst “has chosen to blatantly violate our contract,” and they plan to defend it “through all legal channels available.”
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