As the Washington Post celebrated its 125th anniversary today, the vast majority reporters, photographers and artists at the newspaper withheld their bylines as planned to protest management's latest contract offer (see WIT for May 31, 2002). The only signed article on the The Post's front page today was written by management, and the words "By a Washington Post Staff Writer" replaced well-known names throughout the paper as every foreign correspondent, National, Style, Sports and Metro writer withheld their name from their articles. The byline "strike" will continue tomorrow, as the members of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild, Local 32035 of the Newspaper Guild-Communications Workers of America show their displeasure with company offers that have been characterized as union busting, and peanuts.
See "Post Staffers Hold 'Byline Strike' Protest", FRANK AHRENS, The Washington Post, June 4, 2002