Congratulations to NewsGuild members at The New Yorker, Pitchfork and Ars Technica, who announced Wednesday that a strike has been averted and an agreement in principle has been reached on historic first contracts with Condé Nast, the publications’ parent company.
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On Friday, several NewsGuild-CWA members either won or were finalists of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize Awards.
Continue reading “Congrats, Pulitzer Prize winners and finalists!”
The last few weeks have been marred by serious attacks on democracy, press freedom and journalists at home and abroad.
We’re outraged by the Belarusian government’s use of a military aircraft to ground a civilian plane and arrest a journalist who was a passenger on the flight and by the Israeli government’s intentional bombing of offices housing the Associated Press and Al Jazeera. We’re also deeply disturbed by the arrest of an American journalist in Myanmar and the ongoing crackdown on the press there since a February coup. These brazen incidents reflect a troubling slide toward authoritarianism around the world.
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The NewsGuild-CWA condemns in the strongest possible terms the Belarus government’s grounding of a civilian plane and the arrest of journalist Raman Pratasevich, who was a passenger on the flight.
We call for Pratasevich’s immediate release and the release of Sofia Sapega, who was traveling with him.
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Thousands of NewsGuild-CWA members, myself included, were upset by Tribune Publishing’s announcement today that shareholders approved the company’s takeover by Alden Global Capital, a hedge fund known as “the destroyer of newspapers.”
Continue reading “Tribune Publishing shareholders let everyone down”
Hundreds of NewsGuild members rallied in Chicago (right), Orlando (below), Virginia Beach, Hartford and Annapolis on Saturday in an effort to derail Alden Global Capital’s planned takeover of Tribune Publishing. (A Baltimore rally was held in April.)
Continue reading “Newsletter: Some amazing wins”
Today is World Press Freedom Day, and this year’s theme, “Information as a Public Good,” couldn’t be more appropriate. It reflects the severity of the crisis facing journalism and the need to reshape our industry. We cannot let hedge funds and profit-hungry chains run journalism into the ground. News and information are essential to empowering the people to participate in civic life.
Continue reading “Newsletter: The story you’ve always dreamed of telling”
Updated 6 p.m. April 30
We’ve seen so many impressive logos from our locals and our units over the past several years, and now we’d like to redesign the international union logo.
Continue reading “Help us redesign the Guild’s logo”
There is so much amazing news from the last couple of weeks!
First up, about 1,000 workers have gone public with union drives in just the last week!
Continue reading “Newsletter: NYT Tech and Insider make a splash!”
The NewsGuild-CWA strongly condemns attacks by police on journalists covering protests over the weekend in Brooklyn Center, Minn.
Continue reading “Police targeting journalists threatens our democracy”