For Labor Day, the Nieman Journalism Lab has collected five varied takes on labor in the news business, starting with Jack Shafer's 2009 commentary on New York's 1962-63 newspaper strike. "When I consider the dead and dying newspapers of our time, and the post-newspaper world everybody is predicting, I can't help but think of the 114-day New York newspaper strike," Shafer wrote in Slate, which laid him off last month.
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