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News flash: ABC writers get a pay raise

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Finally some good news at ABC.

The newscasters, production assistants and researchers behind such ABC shows as ‘Good Morning America’ and ‘World News with Diane Sawyer’ are getting a modest bump in pay.

ABC News employees represented by the Writers Guild of America, East voted overwhelmingly in support of a new three-year contract that provides 2% annual pay increases. The contract covers about 250 employees at national and local television and radio programs in New York and Washington, D.C.

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In addition, the contract provides a minimum salary and enhanced severance package for writers who produce shows for WABC-TV in New York, and gives ABC ‘greater flexibility in work assignments in return for improvement job security protections,’ the guild said in a statement.

The Walt Disney Co.-owned network is shedding 350 to 400 jobs as part of a sweeping overhaul in the way it gathers and produces news.

-- Richard Verrier

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