5 posts and columns on concessions

Google’s Mission: To Digitize the World’s Books and Make Them Universally Monetizable by Google

in News on November 16, 2009 at 12:40 pm PT

Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers have submitted a new version of their digital book settlement, and while it makes concessions to the Department of Justice and others who have raised concerns about how it may violate antitrust laws, the new proposal doesn’t seem to have appeased all of its opponents.
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New York Times Tells the Boston Globe It Doesn’t Have to Sell the Boston Globe

in Media on September 9, 2009 at 11:32 am PT

The cash-strapped New York Times, which has put the Boston Globe and its other New England properties up for sale, wants you to know that it’s in no way having a fire sale. Boston Globe employees appeared to have taken that message at face value.
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Sprint: The Now Network

in News on September 8, 2009 at 1:00 pm PT

New York Times Strikes Deal With Boston Globe’s Holdout Union

in Media on May 6, 2009 at 4:00 am PT

The Boston Globe can keep printing. The New York Times Co., which owns the Globe, has reached an agreement with the Boston Newspaper Guild, the paper’s lone holdout union. A new deal involves pay cuts and “modifications to the lifetime job guarantee provisions,” but will allow the paper to stay afloat, for now.
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New York Times: We Won’t Have to Shutter the Boston Globe After All

in Media on May 4, 2009 at 9:10 am PT

The New York Times, which had threatened to shut down the Boston Globe unless that paper’s unions agreed to major concessions, says it got what it needed from the Globe’s workers after all. Once exception: The Globe’s unionized editorial employees, who have yet to come to terms with the paper’s owner. The Times make ominous sounds about what might happen–“evaluating our alternatives”–but nothing specific.