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Eastleigh Borough Council have dropped the Daily Echo as a partner in the production of the council’s own freebie newspaper ‘Borough News’. A recent freedom of information request showed that from 2007 – 2010 the council had spent almost £340,000 with Echo owners Newsquest – the borough news contract was said to be worth...
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Daily Echo journalists face a further reduction to their pay despite agreeing to a 2 percent pay rise. Bosses are asking them to volunteer for a 6.7 percent pay cut by agreeing to knock 2.5 hours off their working week. While in another crazy u-turn, the same journo’s who had been criticised by their...
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Local journalists say they will be sending Daily Echo bosses a special Christmas present in the New Year – a further three days of strike action. NUJ members at the Newsquest owned paper, which also produces Eastleigh News Extra and Eastleigh Borough News have already held two 48 hour stoppages which they say are...
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Working relations at the strike torn Daily Echo, which also produces Eastleigh News Extra and Eastleigh Borough News, have worsened with NUJ members to be balloted on further strike action. The striking Journo’s have been angered to discover that the management are rewarding workers who did not take part in the walk outs with...
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Echo journalists want to wish you a merry Christmas Striking journalists felt as frozen as a Daily Echo pay packet yesterday as they took to busking the streets of Southampton with a selection seasonal songs. The cash strapped correspondent’s braved sub zero temperatures in protest at an ongoing two year pay freeze imposed by...
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Staff at local newspapers The Daily Echo and Eastleigh News Extra are set to resume strike action next week after talks with management broke down. The jaded journo’s have announced they will be back on the picket line on December 7 and 8 in protest at an ongoing two year pay freeze, the cessation...
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Journalists at Eastleigh News Extra and the Daily Echo who agreed to suspend strike action in return for talks on pay have been told by their editor that the ongoing pay freeze and closure of the pension fund is non negotiable. In a statement to Journalism.co.uk, Editor Ian Murray said: “The wage freeze remains...
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Four days of strike action by National Union of Journalists (NUJ) members working at BBC South and at local newspaper The Daily Echo – scheduled to take place this week – have now been called off. Both the BBC and Daily Echo were hit last week with 48 hour stoppages by NUJ members however...
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Echo editor Ian Murray couldn’t look his own reporters in the eye as he was forced to walk through a picket line outside Southampton Art Gallery today. Mr Murray was playing host to Lady Buscombe, head of the Press Complaints Commission and had arranged a public meeting at the art gallery, but the boss...
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Journalists at Eastleigh’s Daily Echo are preparing to join their Newsquest colleagues all over Hampshire tomorrow in a 48 hour stoppage in support of a pay rise and in protest at attempts by the regional media giant to alter their pension provisions. Staff were upset to discover that Boss Paul Davidson– who this year...
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Local Echo journalists will be shocked today to discover the size of their Chairman’s pay packet. Paul Davidson top boss at ‘Newsquest’ – the company that publishes our local newspapers including the Echo, Hampshire Chronicle and Eastleigh News Extra saw his pay rocket from £501,234 to £609,385 this year while his staff have been...
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Staff working on popular local newspapers ‘The Daily Echo’ and ‘Hampshire Chronicle’ have voted an overwhelming 95% in favour of taking industrial action over a two year pay freeze. The journalists are employed by news publisher ‘Newsquest’ which has a monopoly of local titles including the Echo, Hampshire Chronicle and weekly freebie ‘News Extra’...
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Communities’ secretary Eric Pickles has announced plans to crackdown on ‘free’ council newspapers like Eastleigh’s ‘Borough News’ – which he described as ‘Town hall Pravdas’. Critics of free council papers say they are biased in their support of council projects and provide unfair completion to local businesses and media outlets. A recent edition of...
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