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23 Apr, 4 tweets, 3 min read
I'm just gonna say I am extremely doubtful that @ebruenig's salary at @nytimes is only $100,000.

$100k is the guild minimum for a Times reporter with 2 years' experience! You don't pay an opinion columnist that.

If I'm somehow wrong: Liz, renegotiate!

businessinsider.com/new-york-times…
Guild minimums (for @nytimes and others) here:

newsguild.org/9027-2/

NYT $100k
Guardian $96k
WSJ $73k (which has always struck me as low!)
Boston Globe $72k
AP $68k
Philly Inq $66k
The WSJ guild minimum salary has seemed low for as long as I've known it (20 years?). Is that's some weird artifact of Dow Jones jobs being under the same contract or something? $73k for a WSJ staff writer seems ridic; does everyone negotiate their own deal?
Susie points out that, despite the guild calling these "minimum pay required" for "reporters," the @guardian has lower-paid classifications for some reporters.

For instance, top minimum for a "general assignment reporter" (not a "senior" one) is $68k.

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How did Louisiana schools teach Reconstruction in the 1990s?

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I love local news, but my god this lawsuit is pure nonsense. It’s as if newspapers sued radio in 1920, billboards in 1940, TV in 1960, direct mail companies in 1980, cable systems in 1990, and businesses for setting up their own websites in 2000.

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Like HHRQ, or HRVT, or HMTS, or something?
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In small-town Louisiana, it was still cool in 1926 to arrest "idle negroes" who weren't working for local white farmers.

Once their labor force was captive, farmers would bail them out "as fast as they were locked up" and put them to work to pay off their bail.
(The Rayne Tribune, Oct. 9, 1926.)
Still happening in Shreveport in 1945.

And note the union involvement. People don't realize how much of the anti-union sentiment in the south is based on the desire to continue ownership over the labor of black people after 1865.

(Shreveport Times, Feb. 10, 1945.)
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