Under Trump, media companies are emboldened against employee unionizing

In the past decade, digital media has experienced a boom-and-bust cycle. Sites that were buoyed in the early 2010s by digital-advertising dollars watched their traffic plummet in subsequent years as readers shifted to consuming content on social media. The next step for many publishers like Vice and G/O Media has been to lean into private […] Continue reading at 'Columbia Journalism Review'

[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-01-30 17:05:04 UTC ]
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