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Guild statement on federal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center

The Washington-Baltimore News Guild stands in solidarity with our members at the Southern Poverty Law Center as the organization faces a federal indictment rooted in politics rather than the law. To characterize the SPLC’s use of confidential informants as fraud, at a moment when this administration has made no secret of its hostility toward the SPLC, raises serious questions about the integrity and motivation of this prosecution.

Post-Gazette journalists call on new owner to follow federal law and restore trust with Pittsburgh community

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Media Contact:
Dylan Manshack (dmanshack@cwa-union.org), NewsGuild Communications, 202-445-4033

The Venetoulis Institute has acquired the Pulitzer Prize-winning PG staff to keep the paper alive. It has also indicated it will cut jobs.

PITTSBURGH — Post-Gazette workers were informed on Tuesday morning that the publication was sold to the Venetoulis Institute, the owners of the Baltimore Banner.

We are excited for this historic institution to survive, and eager to ensure that it operates in a way that respects the people of Pittsburgh, and the journalists who strive to serve them.

Banner leadership has already publicly indicated that it intends to cut jobs and not uphold our union contract.

Clean Water Action staff across the country join together to seek recognition as the Clean Water Guild

Media Contact:
Esteban Gil, Pacific Media Workers Guild | esteban@mediaworkers.org
Emily Plunkett Frazier, Clean Water Guild Organizing Committee | cleanwaterunion@gmail.com

The workers of Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund are proud to announce the formation of the Clean Water Guild, uniting employees of Clean Water Action and Clean Water Fund as a part of The NewsGuild-CWA.

ON STRIKE: Unionized staff at ProPublica walk off the job

NEW YORK – Unionized staff at investigative nonprofit newsroom ProPublica walked off the job Wednesday in a one-day strike, setting up picket lines outside the company’s New York City headquarters, as well as in Chicago and Washington, D.C.

Newsletter: A U.S. appeals court affirmed our injunction against the DHS

ProPublica workers voted 92% to authorize a strike if management does not agree to a fair contract that includes job security protections, ethical guardrails around the use of AI and wage increases to keep up with the rising cost of living.

NewsGuild joins broad coalition challenging FCC approval of Nexstar’s takeover attempt of TEGNA

Last month The NewsGuild-CWA joined a lawsuit with a large coalition of organizations supporting a free press and broadcasters to appeal the largest broadcast merger in the history of the United States.

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Southern California judges affirm First Amendment protections for journalists, protestors and legal observers

On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said journalists, protestors and legal observers are likely to succeed on their First Amendment claims against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for retaliatory use of force during ongoing protests against federal immigration actions in Southern California.

The NewsGuild-CWA joined a lawsuit in June against DHS and then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem filed by the ACLU of Southern California with the Los Angeles Press Club, journalists, legal observers and others.

Unionized staff at ProPublica vote to strike

The NewsGuild of New York-represented workers at the nonprofit newsroom take action after management’s persistent refusal to agree to a fair contract that includes industry-standard “just cause” job security protections and guardrails around the use of AI.

NEW YORK – Unionized staff at one of the nation’s largest nonprofit newsrooms, ProPublica, have voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. Workers have been bargaining for more than two years for a first contract.

NABET-CWA & NewsGuild-CWA Statement on Nexstar-Tegna Merger

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Moira Bulloch (mbulloch@cwa-union.org), CWA Communications, 202-434-1168

The National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians–Communications Workers of America (NABET-CWA) and The NewsGuild-CWA jointly released the following statement in response to the FCC’s decision to approve Nexstar Media Group’s acquisition of Tegna:

NewsGuild-CWA stands in solidarity with striking CBS News 24/7 workers

Workers at CBS are walking out. The unionized team that runs CBS’ streaming service launched a 24-hour strike in New York and San Francisco after negotiations with CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly imploded. Despite multiple days of good-faith negotiations and a strike pledge signed by 95% of members, management continues to offer worse terms than in previous contracts.