It seems a weirdly clumsy PR move as it only draws attention to the ongoing losses and the obvious concerns for journalists who have made it very clear they are worried about finances? From a PR point of view, it would have been better to just ignore this non-news, surely?
May 2025 bring peace to Gaza. At least 147 Palestinian journalists and media workers have been killed during the war in Gaza. It is the worst massacre suffered by the profession in the history of humanity.
Picture: Ashraf Amra / Anadolu / AFP.
The Labour peer determined to get the near 3,000 people still serving the horrific outlawed IPP prison sentences resentenced – and the battle he faces to convince his Government
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
I may have to pass, I'm afraid
However, Guardian and Observer journalists have tried to stop this, striking for the first time in 50 years, literally pleading for a pause the talks - for some reason, they would not listen
Observer journalists are not 'bad at change' - they know when change will be bad, even if the new boss 'kneels before them'
Observer journalists know of at least one higher bid - the bidder made it very public himself and even joined them on the picket line
The Observer needs to survive and thrive, but many at paper are concerned about Tortoise links to Big Oil - one minute they were working for a company eager to be seen as a climate champion, next ... well, this story has led to many worries
bylinetimes.com/2024/12/18/t...
Has Big Oil finally pocketed @theguardian.com?
From the Observer's recently retired editor...
#Denmark: Journalists' union @journalistforbundet.dk website deindexed by #Google in the firm’s latest search experiment. We demand explanations!
europeanjournalists.org/blog/2024/12...
Third day of Guardian & Observer strikes on Thurs 12 and Fri 13 to feature carols, protest songs & a festive picket line as campaign to #SavetheObserver continues.
Please show your support by re-posting & joining us at the Guardian’s HQ, details 👇
www.nuj.org.uk/resource/thi...
Observer journalists want to know names of individual investors of £20m in Tortoise bid - they know there are many 'tiny amounts' and this adds to worries for long-term future
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"All that the employees want is time to discuss the future calmly and properly. It is not too late to pull back from disaster." Thank you @stefanstern.bsky.social
#savetheobserver
I will be joining my colleagues at the Guardian and Observer who are on strike for 48 hours. It ends at 23.59 GMT on Friday 13 December. For more information please follow bsky.app/profile/gonu... and @NUJofficial, or visit nuj.org.uk/savetheobserver
And here’s another letter. This one from Paul Webster who was Observer editor as this deal was being discussed in total secrecy without any consultation with him.
www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
"Key questions have been left unanswered": Observer and Guardian staff and writers respond to an article by the chair of the Scott Trust
www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
Observer journalists still can't get a clear answer to the direct question: why can't this deal be paused to consider other bids or explore this one more, or ask journalists for ideas?
"I find it absolutely staggering and a profound degree of recklessness."
Guardian and Observer writer Carole Cadwalladr tells @cathynewman.bsky.social why journalists at the newspaper are on strike.
Read and watch:
www.channel4.com/news/guardia...
The spirit, values & ethos of a newspaper doesn’t reside inside a corporate hq with a load of designer chairs. It’s the journalists who embody it. We are the living link to the past & the best chance of survival into the future. You can’t buy or sell that, only treasure or lose it.
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Quite an account of a meeting about the unseemly offloading of the Observer by the Guardian. Journalists are livid.
This is an incredible short film. If you want to understand why the journalists of Guardian & Observer are fighting for our survival, please watch it. It gave me the chills.
Winnie Mandela on how the Observer helped save Nelson Mandela's life & the ANC leadership
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu70...
That's a great letter Marsha - thank you
The owner of the Guardian has been urged to pause the sale of The Observer to Tortoise Media by five former editors and one ex-editor in chief of the title.
pressgazette.co.uk/news/observe...
Surviving Gaza.
Picture: Samar Abu Elouf.
New York Times.
#Journalism #PhotoJournalism
The question many are asking is why not pause these talks, as the NUJ are requesting? Why the rush to sell the Observer?
The Observer does bring readers to the Guardian website, specifically for its own writers bit it has never been permitted to have a separate digital presence
The Guardian doesn't want to integrate further but exactly why is not clear ... Observer and Guardian journalists see themselves as colleagues
They may want to branch into print but Observer journalists have good reasons to want to stay where they are or explore other options, which they believe are more viable
