The NewsGuild-CWA strongly condemns attacks by police on journalists covering protests over the weekend in Brooklyn Center, Minn.
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Newsletter: Strike votes, the fight for pro-journalism owners and more organizing!
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NewsGuild members at The New Yorker, Pitchfork, and Ars Technica voted — with 98 percent support — to approve a strike if negotiations with management of their publications and their parent company, Condé Nast, break down further. The vote came on March 26 after years of contentious negotiations for first contracts at each outlet.
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Guild retains consultant in harassment probe
Recently we at the international NewsGuild-CWA retained an independent consultant to start a review with our membership at the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh to improve our culture and policies and make sure our union is safe for every member.
In the coming weeks the consultant will speak with current and former members of the Pittsburgh local union and identify areas of improvement based on members’ feedback. We’ve been coordinating with members of the Human Rights Committee at the local for several months and I’m excited to see this new phase of work get started.
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Newsletter: Collective action and testifying in front of Congress
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I was honored to testify before a House subcommittee on behalf of our members on March 12 about the extinction-level threat facing local news. I told members of the House Antitrust Subcommittee that in the last 16 years, 2,100 U.S. newsrooms have shut down. And there are half as many newspaper journalists working today as there were a decade ago.
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Newsletter: So much organizing!
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Tomorrow, March 9, is Asian American and Pacific Islander Women’s Equal Pay Day. Please join the Guild as we mark the day by joining a Twitter storm at 2 p.m. EST (11 a.m. PT; 12 p.m. MT; and 1 p.m. CT).
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Unions condemn Facebook bullying, call for bolder steps to tackle news deserts
Journalists and media unions in Australia, the US, Canada and the UK have issued the following joint call for governments to take “bolder steps” to protect jobs and save journalism.
Journalism is a public good. Journalism is essential for democracy.
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Newsletter: Getting to NewsGuild Strong
Earlier this month I wrote about NewsGuild Strong — a union-wide effort to make our union more democratic and member-driven. This is a progression of what I’ve been doing over the last year on the job.
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Good news for Maryland, bad news for everyone else
Yesterday, Marylanders got some great news: a local investor wants to buy The Baltimore Sun and other Maryland newspapers owned by Tribune Publishing. Other communities with Tribune papers got bad news: the vampire hedge fund Alden Global Capital wants to take over the rest of the company.
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NewsGuild Strong and how we get there
Democracy depends on journalism.
I am calling on every one of our members to affirm that when we act together we have power.
In 2021, our members will fight to protect their jobs and democracy. That is why I am introducing my new vision as NewsGuild president: NewsGuild Strong.
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Idaho NewsGuild members stood up for their fired boss last week, protesting McClatchy’s decision to abruptly fire editor Christina Lords.
Lords was terminated after tweeting how difficult it was for employees to get access to basic tools, including Microsoft Excel for an investigative journalist. She also urged readers to support the paper and subscribe. She later deleted the tweet.
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