POST OFFERS GUILD MORE SEVERANCE PAY; Up to Two Months in Wages Added for Employees Accepting Paper's Staff-Reduction Offer Arrangement Called 'Best Way' Talks Moving Back to New York Workers 'Redeployed'
Date: 29 April 1978
By ROBERT D. McFADDEN
NY Post will offer up to 2 mos of added severance pay to about 115 editorial and commercial employees whose resignations have been sought in economy move, under agreement reached with Newspaper Guild; guild exec sec Harry Fisdell and mediator John Zancanaro comment (S)
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The New York Post Reassigning Some on Staff Who Won't Resign
Date: 28 April 1978
By PETER KIHSS
Peter KIHSS
NY Post has begun to 'redeploy' some staff members who refused its offer that they resign with severance pay so that Post could reduce its staff by 1/3; Martin Fischbein, special asst to publisher Rupert Murdoch, comments; Murdoch, in telegram to Fed Mediation Service dir Wayne L Horvitz, repts no progress in negotiations; Newspaper Guild says it has asked mediation service to join in its negotiations with Daily News; News, in telegram to service's regional dir Paul Yager, asks that he urge resumption of direct talks; Bertram A Powers, pres of NY Typographical Union Local 6, comments (S)
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Burger and Press Freedom; Chief Justice, in Unusual Move, Gives Philosophy On Special Privileges and Media Conglomerates News Analysis Citizen Equal Reporter News Media Auxiliaries
Date: 28 April 1978
By WARREN WEAVER Jr. Special to The New York Times
Warren WEAVER
analysis of ruling by Burger, supplementing high ct ruling on pol free speech for corps with 2,000-word essay cautioning corps that are partly or wholly in news business that their freedoms may prove to be narrower than they believe (M)
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World News Briefs; Brezhnev Says Truman Broke Promises to Soviet U.S. and Soviet Delegates Debate Reporters' Rights World Is Said to Spend Million a Minute on Arms Ethiopian Leader Ends Cuban Visit France Reported to Send Fighter-Bombers to Chad
Date: 28 April 1978
Amer and Soviet delegates at UNESCO conf on news collection and dissemination, Stockholm, debate question of whether journalists should be allowed to contact opposition leaders in countries they visit (S)
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Advertising; New Militancy Toward Government ... And in New York 3 Trade Publications Bought
Date: 28 April 1978
By PHILIP H. DOUGHERTY Special to The New York Times
Philip DOUGHERTY
Life names Charles A Whittingham publisher (S)
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