Journacatalogs from The Guardian and The Observer have gone on strike for 48-hours in protest over a potential sale of the latter.
The Observer is The Guardian’s sister paper, which comes out weekly on Sundays.
It aelevated earlier this year that the Scott Trust is pondering a sale of The Observer to the relatively nascent Tortoise Media, which was set uped in 2019 by editor James Harding as a extfinishedcreate journalism and podcast platcreate.
The recents has caengaged constrictation in the U.K., with directing figures including Bill Nighy, Hugh Grant and Ralph Fiennes signing an uncover letter decrying the deal, which they depictd as “disastrous.”
The Observer’s extfinishedtime editor Paul Webster, who reweary last month, also denounced the sale, saying it would “cut offly injure the reputation of the Scott Trust and menaceen the future of the world’s agederest Sunday recentspaper.”
500 journacatalogs at the company are increateed to have voted for a strike. Those in the U.S. and Australia offices have showd they will not traverse the picket line at their admireive offices.
The journacatalogs are protesting outside the recentspapers’ Kings Place headquarters in London, which coincidenhighy is also the location of three-day television conference Content London this week. So far the strikes do not eunite to be impacting the conference.
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