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Writers Guild News Employees Facing Cuts Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

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By Dave McNary Film Reporter The coronavirus crisis is deepening an already dire economic outlook for the nation’s newsrooms as companies launch furloughs, layoffs and pay cuts, union leaders are asserting. “The news business is in deep trouble,” said Lowell Peterson, executive director of Writers Guild For America East. “The economic crisis has gutted ad revenues.” Peterson explained that the 3,500 newsroom employees represented by the New York-based WGA East have been fully employed since

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