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CareerBuilder.com Launches Free Online Salary Information
CHICAGO, Sept. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Is the job offer you received enough? Is your pay on par with other professionals in your position and location? Are you interested in making a career change, but aren't sure about your earning potential? You can find these answers and more at CBSalary.com, a free, comprehensive salary information and advice site from CareerBuilder.com, the nation's largest online job site. CBSalary.com is powered by PayScale, a market leader in online compensation and benefits information and host to the largest ongoing real-time compensation database in the world.

Best Places to Work
CHICAGO, Sept. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Want to work for a great company? How about the best? CareerBuilder.com, the nation's largest online job site with more than 23 million unique visitors and over 1.5 million jobs, was awarded the No. 1 spot for medium-sized companies in Atlanta Business Chronicle's "Atlanta's 2006 Best Places to Work" competition.

LA Times Journalists Protest Tribune Co's Cuts
The Los Angeles Times' staff rebellion against its Chicago-based owners has escalated as over 300 journalists have signed a petition to be delivered Thursday to the Tribune Co.'s (TRB) board meeting, the Financial Times reported on its Web site Wednesday.

Journalists protest planned cuts at paper
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- An escalating feud between management and journalists at one of the nation's largest newspapers got a little hotter Wednesday, as reporters and editors at the Los Angeles Times signed a petition protesting planned staff reductions, according to a report late Wednesday.

'L.A.Times' Staffers Circulate Petition Backing Pair
NEW YORK A petition supporting Los Angeles Times Editor Dean Baquet and Publisher Jeff Johnson for their stand against potential cuts by the Tribune Company began circulating Tuesday, according to newsroom staffers. Hundreds had signed the document that was to be sent to the corporate headquarters in Chicago before Thursday’s planned board meeting.

'Save Baquet' petition
We the undersigned staff members of the Los Angeles Times want to state our support and appreciation for the stand our publisher, Jeff Johnson, and editor, Dean Baquet, have taken on behalf of quality journalism and the newspaper we love.

MGA buys Times Chatsworth plant
The San Fernando Valley Business Journal is reporting that MGA Entertainment, the Van Nuys-based maker of Bratz dolls, is buying the Los Angeles Times' Chatsworth facility. MGA expects to use the location as its new corporate headquarters. No word on purchase price. You might remember that the Times announced the closing of its Chatsworth plant in late 2005. It resulted in the loss of 110 jobs and was part of the paper's effort to consolidate production facilities.

Rebellion at the Times
The editor and publisher of the LA Times are leading an open revolt against the newspaper's owner, Chicago-based Tribune Co., protesting staff cuts they say have gutted its reputation for good journalism. Sarah Gardner has the story.

On Saving the Los Angeles Times From Itself
With all of the internal machinations and alterations going down these days at a place called the L.A. Times -- what with demands for Tribune Company to sell it and the editors to improve it and residents to keep reading it despite the creeping obsolescence of its ilk -- publisher Jeff Johnson thought it was finally time to take some real action. And so, he did. Because when the going gets tough, the tough, naturally, send out a memo.

Staff rebellion at LA Times escalates
A staff rebellion at the Los Angeles Times against its Chicago owners has escalated, with more than 300 journalists signing a petition to be delivered on Thursday to directors at a Tribune Company board meeting.

The petition is in support of the paper’s editor, Dean Baquet, and publisher, Jeffrey Johnson, who last week defied Tribune’s demands to make deeper cuts at the paper, arguing that it would damage quality.

At Los Angeles Times, a Civil Executive Rebellion
After Jeffrey M. Johnson, the publisher of The Los Angeles Times, openly defied his bosses at the Tribune Company last week by refusing to make layoffs at the paper, he was summoned to Chicago and spent Tuesday meeting with top executives.

When you can't beat them join them
Many newspaper companies, such as the Tribune Co., are embracing what many refer to as "crunch time". Right before our very eyes the Internet, being newspapers' main contender, is swallowing print media's profit almost entirely.