E-mail interviews: Easy,
efficient and edged in peril By
Clarice Connors
Bulletin Staff
A typed series of
questions, a mouse click, and an Internet connection are sometimes the
easiest ways to acquire information in the 21st century. But the easiest
way might not always be the best way.
For many people,
e-mail provides easy access to others through a keyboard and a cable.
For journalists, e-mail poses threats to the integrity and art of interviewing.
Keeping up with
technology, journalists added digital audio recorders and e-mail to
their reporting tools of pencils and notepads.
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Mailers’,
pressmen’s unions OK concessions
Guild members
vote June 8 on concessions to save Boston Globe
 With
The Boston Globe’s largest union, the Boston Newspaper Guild,
scheduled to vote June 8 to ratify or reject a concession proposal that
would cut pay by the equivalent of about 10 percent, the Globe’s
publisher, P. Steven Ainsley, sent a memo to Guild members May 20 saying
that union members will get a 23 percent pay cut if the proposal is
rejected, the Boston Herald reported.
According to the memo, published in the Herald, Ainsley said the Globe
had reached tentative agreements with seven of the Globe’s other
major unions, including drivers, pressmen, mailers, two groups of electricians,
machinists and paper handlers.
In April, The New York Times Co., which owns the Globe, said the Globe
would be closed unless the company gained $20 million in concessions
from its unions, with $10 million in concessions coming from the Guild.
According to a report in the Herald, the Times Co. also wanted to make
a one-time round of layoffs without regard to seniority.
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