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Bargaining Update 02.04.10

Feb. 4, 2010 -- Thursday, February 4, 2010 was another day at the bargaining table with the Company. No breakthrough, but it was another constructive and worthwhile session.

We spent a good deal of time talking about seniority, job protection and severance packages. We also shared the most recent comments from members about premium pay — comments that the company took seriously.

We also touched, yet again, on the question of bargaining waivers — and made it clear, yet again, your opposition to the Company's initial demand for blanket waivers.

There's still a lot of bargaining to be done and a lot of issues to be covered, but it's critical that you — and every other employee of Dow Jones — stay engaged and active. Management notices what you do — and what you don't do.
It's important that you make your voice heard.

If you are opposed to the blanket waivers initially proposed by the Company, management needs to hear from you. Post a "Keep It in the Contract" poster at your desk — tape it to the back of your chair, if there's no other spot available. If you haven't received a poster from a board member or steward yet, let us know. We'll get one to you.

You can also follow the bargaining — and offer your comments — on IAPE's Facebook page.

As always, if you need anything, let us know.

IAPE Bargaining Committee
Steve Yount
Bob Kozma
Rob Johnson
Patricia Corley
Erin Rodgers
Andy Georgiades
Amy Merrick
Bruce Nelson
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Earthquake Relief

IAPE has made a contribution to the Earthquake relief efforts underway in Haiti and applauds News Corp.'s offer of $250,000 in Earthquake Relief for Haiti and its promise to match your donations. - More

News Corp Profits

Feb. 2, 2010 -- A note to all employees from Rupert Murdoch News Corporation has released earnings for the second quarter of fiscal 2010 that far outpaced those of the same quarter last year. I wanted to share with you some of the reasons behind this performance and why we think it will continue into coming quarters. Across the globe, our businesses are all growing, and we are entering calendar 2010 with new vigor and strength. You have done an extraordinary job. Thank you. In the midst of the most challenging economic conditions I've witnessed, you buckled down and brought dedication and imagination to your work. Of course, we're also benefiting from macroeconomic forces such as the improving ad market, as well as the steps we took over past quarters to make our operations more efficient. Thanks to these factors and your unrelenting focus, News Corporation has returned to organic revenue growth that will benefit us, and our stockholders, for years to come. | More

Daily News Widens Lead over Post

Feb. 2, 2010 -- Widening its circulation lead last year by over 40,000 copies, Mort Zuckerman's New York Daily News is now soundly beating Rupert Murdoch's New York Post with a much wider margin than in September of 2008, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulation. Back then, the Daily News was only leading by 4,100 copies over the Post. In 2006 the tense rivalry between Zuckerman and Murdoch's publications seemed to be going to the Post, but as both papers have lost readers to the Internet and Murdoch raised the price of newsstand issues to 50 cents in 2008, the Daily News has come out the clear winner...at least in overall print consumers. That's to say nothing of Internet readers, of which Murdoch, with his grand plans for making news aggregators pay, may learn to capitalize on before Zuckerman. | More

WSJ vs NYT

Jan. 28, 2010 -- As reported by the New York Observer -- Hear that drum beating? That's Rupert Murdoch, getting ready for war with Arthur Sulzberger Jr. The Wall Street Journal is continuing to staff up its new New York edition, and the project increasingly is looking like a direct assault on The New York Times. The Journal's New York bureau, expected to launch on April 12, will be staffed with roughly three dozen staffers, three times more than the dozen or so the paper had planned for just three months ago. | More

'War at WSJ'

Jan. 20, 2010 -- From The New York Times: Get ready for another media parlor game, this one pivoting around "War at The Wall Street Journal: Inside the Struggle to Control an American Business Empire." The book, by the former Journal media writer Sarah Ellison, is a scrupulously fair, careful account written from a close distance about how Rupert Murdoch came to own the crown jewel of American business journalism. The back flap of the advanced copy -- the book is scheduled to come out May 12 -- has a lurid come-on: "Set in the highest echelon of the media, this saga of an American institution under siege is a bonfire of barbarians and boldface names." | More

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