Romenesko

Editor & Publisher
"This is ridiculous to have any talk of shutting down the papers," says Joe Lyons, president of the Philadelphia Newspaper Council of Unions. "We don't want to hurt the newspapers. I think the guild is hurting the guild members." Philadelphia Newspapers CEO Brian Tierney tells Joe Strupp he's not sure what kind of paper would be published if the Newspaper Guild walked out. But he says having more than 1,000 employees from the nine other unions willing to work, and cross a picket line, means the newspapers must continue.