An email from the CMG cleared up the question, “Will Dan get a signing bonus, even though he has no job to return to?”
CBC management has also committed to depositing the $1,000 signing bonus in employees’ accounts by the end of the day on Wednesday October 12. Everyone who was on the CBC payroll as [...]
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This blog stays put
After weeks of intense posting, some lockout bloggers are winding things up. I applaud their efforts, and thank them for their work and dedication.
A group called the CMG Lockout Archive Project is working to establish a collection of lockout blogs, photos, etc.
But for me, the blogging continues.
I started this blog about a year ago, long [...]
R.I.P. MD?
Via Gizmodo, an article from Alice Hill’s Real Tech News: Sony’s Mini-Disc Format About to Bite the Dust.
Google Newsmap: Paris Hilton beats CMG/CBC deal
Curious to know how much attention other media are paying to the CBC/CMG deal, I checked Marumishi’s Google Newsmap, which visually displays the popularity of news stories on Google News.
As of 9:15 this morning, Google News’s algorithms hadn’t categorized the story as national news. Nor as business news. Nope. You’ll find it under entertainment. And [...]
I have no job to go back to
Now that a deal has been reached, it’ll soon be time for me to actually find a job at the CBC. Here’s why:
My contract at CBC Windsor was up on September 4. The week before management locked us out, my managing editor offered me “a couple more months of work.” Not a job job, but [...]