Daily News nixes pandemic bonuses for journalists — but pays the bosses

The New York Daily News on Friday stiffed its journalists out of a modest bonus it had promised them for their hard work during the pandemic.

The New York-metropolitan area newspaper, which has successfully delivered on its pledged bonuses to management, cited staffers’ efforts to unionize — marking the latest slight to the editorial employees who suffered a permanent closing of their newsroom last year. The one-time bonuses were first dangled in front of staffers on Jan. 27 by parent company Tribune Publishing, which had promised the one-time payments to all non-unionized employees across its empire by March 26.