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Article: Wall Street Journal Staff Stages Byline Strike.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- June 17, 2004
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By Christopher Rowland, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 17--Reporters at The Wall Street Journal began withholding bylines from their news stories yesterday, the most visible sign yet of growing labor strife in the newsroom of the nation's largest business newspaper.
Unlike a walkout or work slowdown, a byline strike has little value as a disruptive tactic against the paper's parent, Dow Jones & Co. Instead, the union representing 1,600 Dow Jones employees hopes to bring another weapon to bear: a highly public statement of worker discontent.
The Journal is the nation's second-largest newspaper, behind USA Today, ...