Gatehouse buying Halifax

[Baron Scicluna]

My thoughts as well are with the former Halifax papers. I talked with one this year about a digital editor position and found the organization to be a first-rate class act.

In spite of the non-competes?

Halifax pulled those off the table due to employee backlash. And believe me, there was a lot of backlash.

I'm not sure if brand new employees had to sign them though, but I know existing employees did not.

Seems like a company that would try a thing like that, unless they have a legitimate business interest, such as sales, isn't a first-class act.

 

[TGO157]

My thoughts as well are with the former Halifax papers. I talked with one this year about a digital editor position and found the organization to be a first-rate class act.

In spite of the non-competes?

Halifax pulled those off the table due to employee backlash. And believe me, there was a lot of backlash.

I'm not sure if brand new employees had to sign them though, but I know existing employees did not.

As a new employee, yes, I did have to sign one.


My question: Will the change in ownership make those non-compete clauses null and void?

 

[steveu]

My thoughts as well are with the former Halifax papers. I talked with one this year about a digital editor position and found the organization to be a first-rate class act.

In spite of the non-competes?

Halifax pulled those off the table due to employee backlash. And believe me, there was a lot of backlash.

I'm not sure if brand new employees had to sign them though, but I know existing employees did not.

Seems like a company that would try a thing like that, unless they have a legitimate business interest, such as sales, isn't a first-class act.

I can only speak of the experiences in dealing with the paper. I'll out the paper and the sports editor and say it was Tuscaloosa and Tommy Deas. :)

 

[champ_kind]

Wasn't too long ago that some of the Florida papers headed to Gatehouse were owned by the New York Times. Talk about a downward ownership trajectory.

As someone who works for one of the papers being bought, I have more than a passing interest here. We were cut back a bunch during the NYT era too. We heard all the bad things about Halifax. Not much has changed during their tenure, with the main thing being we kept our jobs. I can only think positive, go to work each day and hope for the best.

i feel for you, heel, and all you others. halifax wasn't as bad as feared after they caved on the noncompetes, but they were no nyt. glad i'm not still around for the gatehouse era.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

My thoughts as well are with the former Halifax papers. I talked with one this year about a digital editor position and found the organization to be a first-rate class act.

In spite of the non-competes?

Halifax pulled those off the table due to employee backlash. And believe me, there was a lot of backlash.

I'm not sure if brand new employees had to sign them though, but I know existing employees did not.

Seems like a company that would try a thing like that, unless they have a legitimate business interest, such as sales, isn't a first-class act.

I can only speak of the experiences in dealing with the paper. I'll out the paper and the sports editor and say it was Tuscaloosa and Tommy Deas. :)

Bit of a difference between the organization of the paper and the company who owns it.

I'm sure it's been the experience of many on here who found a paper to have first-class people in spite of the third-class ownership.

 

[steveu]

And I'm afraid of what might happen now to it.

 

[Untitled]

Yeah .. this should give any Halifax workers what to expect with GateHouse Media.

Not that I'm biased or anything.

http://rockfordguild.wordpress.com/2014/12/01/new-mediagatehouse-keeps-buying-slashing-newspaper-properties/

 

[terrier]

Wow...my old shop has now gone from NYT to John Henry to Halifax to Gatehouse.