"For more than five decades, the Media Guild Pension Plan has paid lifetime pensions to retired participants ... [It] has proven to be a tough survivor of recessions, regulatory hits and the near-collapse of daily print journalism. Today, the Media Guild Pension Plan is down to a single employer -- the Hearst Corp., publisher of the Chronicle ... Plan participants are expecting official word soon from the plan's fiduciaries as to its current funding status. It's even possible that recent financial gains will push the plan out of the so-called 'red zone' of underfunded pension plans."