Support journalists at The Everett Herald!
Carrie Radcliff, publisher of The Everett Herald and John Carr, senior vice president of Carpenter Media.
If you read The Everett Herald, we know you support local journalism and the effort reporters put into covering your community and Snohomish County. Since we formed our union in 2022, we’ve been fighting for fair wages, supportive benefits and the ability to continue to produce meaningful, impactful journalism.
Carpenter Media Group, now the fourth-largest media company in the country, bought The Herald last year along with dozens of small, local newspapers across the Pacific Northwest. After months of negotiating with our union, the company is still offering us a base pay rate of $20.50 per hour, barely above Everett’s minimum wage and less than Seattle’s.
In addition to refusing to give us livable wages, Carpenter wants to tie a $1 per hour pay increase to brutal quotas, requiring 2-3 stories a day per reporter. If we don’t hit the quota, we don’t get the raise.
It doesn’t take a trained journalist to understand that this is an impossible ask — with devastating consequences. We won’t have the ability to give important stories the time they deserve for proper coverage. Tying wages to the quantity of stories will force us to choose between our livelihoods and quality journalism.
We know you support local journalism. We need you to tell our bosses and Carpenter Media that we deserve more to ensure we can provide you with quality news.
You can join our fight by signing this petition, telling our publisher Carrie Radcliff and regional Carpenter manager John Carr, telling them both that you are willing to cancel your subscription if our bosses fail to give us the pay and working conditions we deserve.
The union isn’t asking you to cancel subscriptions today — that will only happen at a later date if Carpenter Media Group doesn’t negotiate a fair contract with us.
If you'd like to help more, you can also email our publisher at carrie.radcliff@heraldnet.com and our regional manager at john.carr@bendbulletin.com, asking them to give us the pay and working conditions we deserve.
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Carrie Radcliff, publisher of The Everett Herald and John Carr, senior vice president of Carpenter Media.
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The readers of The Everett Herald are speaking up to support the workers who create the local journalism that supports Snohomish County and keeps the newspaper running.
Our community knows that paying workers $20.50 per hour and tying our wages to story quotas will not produce the quality reporting they expect and deserve.
The undersigned readers have said that they are strongly considering cancelling their subscriptions if Carpenter Media doesn't give us the living wages and proper working conditions we deserve.