In the year 2014, working for IATSE Local 600, I was representing the news photographers working for television stations KING in Seattle and KGW in Portland. Both stations had been bought by Gannett the previous year, as part of the overall transformation of broadcasting from local ownership to conglomerate ownership. The last labor contracts negotiated with local ownership expired as of the end of 2014, and that year the new corporate beast changed its name to Tegna.