- G/O Media Plans To Add 30 Employees While Diversifying Workforce
Publishers Daily, Rob Williams - Thursday, January 21, 2021
G/O touted its efforts to diversify its workforce, which has become a bigger priority for many companies after last year's protests against systemic racism. ...
- Fiverr Announces First Super Bowl Spot
MAD, Larissa Faw - Tuesday, January 12, 2021
This new ad will serve as an evolution of "It Starts Here" campaign which went live in September 2020. It focuses on small and mid-sized businesses as they navigated digit ...
- Alleged Pro-Trump Rioter Fired By Direct Marketing Company
Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, January 8, 2021
The unnamed employee, who was fired from Navistar Direct Marketing, was identified by his company badge in a picture distributed by Washington, DC police. ...
- 'Tampa Bay Times' Will Outsource Printing, Cuts Staff Pay By 10%
Publishers Daily, Sara Guaglione - Thursday, January 7, 2021
The Tampa Bay Times is closing its 60-year-old printing facility in March. ...
- Study: Newsrooms Lost Over 16,000 Jobs In 2020
Publishers Daily, Fern Siegel - Thursday, January 7, 2021
That total is 200% higher than 2019, when 5,389 jobs were lost, according to global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. ...
- Adapting To The Pandemic, The Many Overhauls Its Hiring Process
MAD, Larissa Faw - Wednesday, December 30, 2020
The agency did a soup-to-nuts reevaluation of its hiring procedures to adjust to the WFH era. New staffers are working from locations far from the agency's office locations. ...
- 'Financial Times' Job Cuts Reflect Shifting Business Priorities
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Tuesday, December 29, 2020
The 'FT' will eliminate as many as 64 jobs among its global workforce of 2,300. The job cuts came to light as the union protested against executive pay, including sala ...
- Gannett Outsources Jobs To India, Proves World Is Virtual Workspace
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Gannett told 485 back-office workers their jobs would be sent overseas, as the news publisher seeks to cut costs. ...
- How Much Do Amazon, Facebook, Google Employees Donate Annually To Charity?
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, December 2, 2020
The tech giants' employees are known to make extravagant salaries, with some making more than $1 million annually with bonuses and perks. But much do they donate annually to char ...
- PMG On A Hiring Spree Following Series Of New Client Wins
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Tuesday, November 24, 2020
The MediaPost Independent Media Agency Of The Year has just expanded its creative department by a dozen positions and has filled five of those slots with former staffers of Dallas-bas ...
- Freelance Journalists Savor Gig-Economy's Election Victories
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Thursday, November 5, 2020
The passage of Proposition 22, which exempts gig-worker companies from AB5, is an important victory for freelancers. ...
- War On Freelance Journalists Is Getting Worse
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Wednesday, October 14, 2020
The biggest threat comes from the Protecting Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which the House of Representatives passed in February to face a dead end in the Senate. ...
- SurveyGizmo Rebrands To Alchemer To Reflect How It Helps Customers Transform
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Alchemer helps brands like Sonos focus on their customers' experience. ...
- How The Pandemic Has Changed Agency Hiring Practices
MAD, Larissa Faw - Thursday, October 8, 2020
Many openings are receiving hundreds of applicants, many unqualified but desperate to find anything given the state of the tattered economy. ...
- Havas Creative NA Hires Executive Search Firm CEO To Lead Recruitment Effort
MAD, Steve McClellan - Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Clair Telling left Grace Blue North America to take on the new role of Chief People Officer. She will also lead strategy for brand and culture at the agency. ...
- Layoffs Hit Meredith, Bloomberg, News Corp
Publishers Daily, Sara Guaglione - Friday, September 18, 2020
Meredith Corp. is letting go of 180 staffers. Up to 400 may be cut at News Corp, due to moving its printing plant. ...
- Communo, AAF Partner To Support Members Impacted By The Pandemic
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Under the arrangement, talent platform Communo is offering all 40,000 AAF Professional Members a one-year paid "pro membership." The AAF, in turn, will work with Communo to extend its profession ...
- California Newspapers Near One-Year Reprieve On Gig-Worker Restrictions
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Monday, September 14, 2020
The bill gives local newspapers another year to comply with Assembly Bill 5, a sweeping law that classifies workers as full-time employees instead of contractors, based on several criteria. ...
- WPP's Youthful Workforce
Mediapsssst, Richard Whitman - Friday, September 4, 2020
It reminds me of a line from an old B-movie about never trusting anyone over the age of 30. Take that advice and we'd all be in deep doo-doo. ...
- For #LaborDayOn, Red Wing Reaches Out To The Unemployed
Marketing Daily, Sarah Mahoney - Thursday, September 3, 2020
The company known for ultra-tough footwear wants to help America's 25 million unemployed people get back to work. ...
- BuzzFeed's Plan To Restore Worker Pay Is A Good Sign
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Friday, September 4, 2020
'BuzzFeed' will restore full salaries on Sept. 16 and end the workshare arrangement at 'BuzzFeed News.' ...
- Autotrader, Kelley Blue Book Launch 'Drive The Vote'
Marketing Daily, Tanya Gazdik - Wednesday, September 2, 2020
A growing list of employers are offering Election Day off, including Coca-Cola, Twitter, Cisco and Uber. ...
- The Death of Lunch
Media Insider, Ted McConnell - Wednesday, September 2, 2020
The media business doesn't behave according to a schedule. Insights don't always come in the half-hour window designated. Leaders need a great number of informal relationships. ...
- LinkedIn Page Owners Now Can Learn More About Followers, Connect Employees
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, September 3, 2020
As work-from-home changes the way companies design their platforms, LinkedIn this week gave marketers more ways to connect people within and outside their business to ease the challenges that ari ...
- SEO Stuck In Gender Inequality
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, August 24, 2020
Female SEO professionals only represented about 30% of the industry in 2015, and that percentage has not improved much since. ...
- Adobe: How Millennials, Gen X Cope With Productivity Challenges At Work, Home
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, August 19, 2020
As performance and productivity change how we live and work, millennials and Gen X seem most impacted by changes in video-conferencing email, phone, text messages, file sharing and social me ...
- Yelp Expands Tools To Help Businesses With Recruiting As COVID-19 Transforms Hiring
Inside Performance, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Yelp has expanded its new guided questionnaires, adding 100 business categories and starting the hiring process by requesting a quote, appointment or consultation as C-level execs strive to gain insigh ...
- 'Pittsburgh Post-Gazette' Union Members Vote To Strike
Publishers Daily, Melynda Fuller - Tuesday, August 11, 2020
The call to strike follows attempts over the past three and a half years by the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh to negotiate a new contract with newspaper ownership. ...
- California's Gig-Worker Law Threatens Local Newspapers
Publishing Insider, Rob Williams - Tuesday, August 11, 2020
When the exemption expires, newspapers in California may see an 85% jump in newspaper delivery costs - which will threaten the viability of newspapers. ...
- Levelwing Lassos Spur Account, Focus On Helping Hourly Workers
MAD, Larissa Faw - Friday, August 7, 2020
Spur is appointing Levelwing as the HR/payroll provider's first agency of record. ...
