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The newspaper industry is changing radically, and not always for the best.
Huge corporations like the one that owns Rochester's daily newspaper, the Gannett Co., are creating ever-more-powerful monopolies that stifle dissenting voices and diminish the amount of news in a community.
New digital technology presents exciting possibilities for journalistic endeavors,
but new challenges as well.
Readership is declining steadily, a tight economy is cutting into revenues and the Internet presents competition undreamed of just a decade ago.
To meet these challenges, we need a collaborative, forward-looking partnership in our workplace. That's the way it's done at successful companies in the 21st century.
That's all the Guild -- the historic union of journalists at the Democrat and Chronicle -- really wants.
But instead, the Gannett Co. is stuck in a 1950's state of mind. They're hell-bent on destroying our union, simply because that's what they've always done. They're determined to extract as much profit from their former hometown because that's what they always do.
We believe that course of action is wrong. That's why we've launched a new public campaign to press the Democrat and Chronicle for change. Change that will benefit us, its workforce in Rochester,
and you, its readers.
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