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MediaBuyerPlanner: A planned strike has been temporarily averted at the Philadelphia Inquirer and The Daily News. Though the deadline for union talks was 12:01 this morning (Friday), management and unionized newsroom workers suspended negotiations and agreed to resume talks Friday morning.
The president of the Newspaper Guild's local unit, Henry Holcomb, said that the union would keep talking "as long as we are making progress, and we are," writes The New York Times.
The deadline has been extended, for the third time, to Dec. 9.
The newspapers, which were a part of Knight Ridder Inc. until March, were sold to McClatchy and then to Philadelphia Media Holdings, an investment group led by Brian Tierney, now the paper's chief executive.
Circulation has been declining, with weekday figures at the Inquirer down 7.6 percent in the six months ended Sept. 30, according to Editor & Publisher.
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