Staff at the New York Daily News and Forbes walked out on Thursday, adding to growing unease in the US newspaper industry in a week when the Los Angeles Times fired more than 100 journalists.
Mike Gartland, a city hall reporter and Daily News union steward, targeted owner Alden Global Capital with a reference to one of the paper’s most famous headlines, Ford to City: Drop Dead, a 1975 response to President Gerald Ford’s refusal to offer New York a financial bailout.
