Author: The NewsGuild-CWA

On Friday, President Trump said he would ban CNN, MS Now and Politico from accessing the White House because of coverage he disliked. The following day journalists and media workers from those news organizations were barred by security from entering the grounds.

On Saturday the Politico and E&E News (PEN) Guild alongside their local, the Washington-Baltimore News Guild, released a statement saying, “This morning, Secret Service barred our own PEN Guild member Cheyenne Haslett from the White House simply for doing her job.

“Press access cannot be weaponized against journalists for their reporting,” they said. “An attack on one outlet’s ability to cover the White House is an attack on a free press for all of us. We stand with our members and every journalist targeted for doing their job.”

Last week, McClatchy laid off 30% of its unionized workers. Over 90 unionized journalists and media workers across 17 publications lost their jobs.

Workers at some of the affected outlets are raising money to support their laid-off colleagues. These fundraisers are linked below.

NORTHAMPTON, MA — Workers at the Cooperative Development Institute (CDI) are celebrating the formation of their union, CDI Workers United (CDIWU), after receiving voluntary recognition from CDI leadership on August 31, 2026.

The workers are represented by the Providence Newspaper Guild, The NewsGuild-CWA Local 31041. Workers organized around shared priorities including meaningful participation in workplace decisions, transparency, accountability, equitable working conditions, and a desire to strengthen communication across programs and throughout the organization.

“We organized because we believe deeply in CDI and in the cooperative values that guide our work,” said Addy Schuetz, a member of CDIWU. “Every day, we help communities build structures that give people a meaningful voice in the decisions that affect them. We believe workers deserve that same opportunity. Forming CDI Workers United gives us a way to bring those values more fully into our own workplace and to work together toward a stronger, more sustainable CDI.”

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on Monday, halting the Trump administration’s latest efforts to impose new restrictions on visas primarily used by students and international journalists. 

The changes would have severely limited the duration of visas for journalists working in the United States for international news outlets, and placed additional restrictions on how long students can remain in this country and whether they could change or extend their planned studies.

Yesterday, the large news publisher McClatchy laid off more than 90 unionized journalists and media workers across 17 publications. They represent about 30% of all McClatchy workers unionized with The NewsGuild-CWA, at news outlets like The Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee and The Kansas City Star. 

These are journalists and other workers who have been asked to adjust, bend, mold and fit into an ever-changing business, some working for decades at McClatchy. They’ve done so seamlessly. 

Their reward? They lost their jobs, cut by a company that should spend as much time figuring out how to use high-skilled employees as it does replacing their work with AI.

The departure of these talented reporters, visual journalists and writers will immediately leave gaping holes in local coverage for dozens of communities across the United States.