In review, The Poughkeepsie Journal covers news, sports, lifestyle, and entertainment for the greater Poughkeepsie, New York area. Advertising and paid subscriptions generate revenue. After the merger, the companies retained the Gannett name. In August 2019, Gatehouse Media purchased and merged with Gannett becoming the largest newspaper chain in the USA. Gannett, the publisher of USA Today, owns The Poughkeepsie Journal. Read our profile on the United States government and media. serves as the online domain for the newspaper. The paper covers local, national, and international news, sports, entertainment, lifestyle, and opinion. Our readers deserve no less.The Poughkeepsie Journal is a newspaper that serves Poughkeepsie, New York, and the surrounding area. There is no journalism without journalists.īy recognizing our union now, and immediately beginning the negotiation process, Gannett can demonstrate its commitment to the power of local news. We stand with the NewsGuild in a wave of successful union organizing in Gannett newsrooms across the country to save local news and ensure a seat at the table when decisions are made. We stand against freelanced “pay-to-play stories” on behalf of advertisers. We stand against unjust terminations and reductions in force, against unilateral changes and cuts to retirement plans, against unreasonable workloads and demands. We stand for respect and dignity for our journalists, for fair wages, well-defined minimum levels of pay, and a transparent and standardized system for promotion and pay increases. We stand for newsrooms as diverse as the readers they serve. What is lost is the local voice, the sense of place, and what it means to live here. The consolidation is not in the service of local journalism, but at the convenience of corporate cost-cutting. The once-proud Rockland Journal-News, a fixture for 169 years, no longer has offices in the county it serves. In Poughkeepsie and Middletown, local autonomy has vanished, along with staff, in the name of regionalization. Our health-care options are limited and costly. The wages offered for vacant positions do not reflect living in one of the nation’s most-expensive regions. We have watched our newsrooms atrophy through layoffs and corporate cuts. We were given the “collective sacrifice” of unpaid furloughs, a vanishing 401(k) match, and advice on buying bike helmets to cover protests. The Gannett CFO was given a $600,000 bonus for working through the pandemic. We have formed a union with the NewsGuild of New York to advocate for ourselves, our profession, and those we serve.ĭespite dwindling resources, we have captured three groundswell moments in our communities: the global pandemic, the economic downturn, and a long-overdue reckoning on race. It is a role we take seriously.ĭecisions by corporate owners at Gannett in Virginia have undermined our efforts to fulfill this mission. As reporters, photographers and editorial staff at The Journal News, Poughkeepsie Journal, and Middletown Times Herald-Record, we bear witness to our readers’ lives, hold the powerful accountable, and amplify the voices of diverse and underrepresented communities.
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