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Guild members recognized by The Pulitzer Prizes

Hundreds of NewsGuild-CWA members were recognized from more than a dozen Guild-represented newsrooms on Monday by The Pulitzer Prizes for their incredible journalism.

“Congratulations to every journalist and media worker recognized by The Pulitzer Prizes for the contributions to our craft,” said NewsGuild-CWA President Jon Schleuss. “So many union journalists were recognized this year and being in a union protects you so you can do your job to seek truth and report it. Hardworking journalists and other workers who support them — not bots and AI — are the ones who find and report the news stories we need to understand our world.”

The Chicago NewsGuild is hiring!

The Chicago NewsGuild is seeking a dynamic full-time staff member to join our growing local in the home of the American labor movement.

CWA, NABET-CWA, and NewsGuild-CWA condemn unlawful executive order interfering with press freedom for public media

Contact: Moira Bulloch – mbulloch@cwa-union.org / 202-434-1168

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Communications Workers of America (CWA) union, representing public media workers at local stations for NPR and PBS across the country and non-editorial workers at the national headquarters of NPR and PBS, has condemned President Trump’s unlawful executive order impeding the freedom of the press for local public TV and radio stations receiving funding through the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Loses Final Appeal, Must Restore Health Care to Striking Workers

PITTSBURGH – On Tuesday the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals rejected two attempts by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PG) to evade its obligation to provide editorial workers the health care plan it illegally tore away from members of the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh (TNG-CWA Local 38061) in 2020.

Newsletter: Nexstar fired a journalist at The Hill to appease Trump

We’ve had a packed couple of weeks!

On Friday U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth extended the temporary restraining order in our lawsuit against the U.S. Agency for Global Media, Kari Lake and Victor Morales. Last month the Trump administration attempted to shutter the agency, which makes sure news is broadcast into countries controlled by repressive regimes. Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe and other newsrooms were immediately impacted. But Congress funds these news organizations and they re-upped that support last month in the latest continuing resolution to fund the U.S. government.

Victory for Press Freedom and Workers: Court Grants Preliminary Injunction to Protect the U.S. Agency for Global Media

April 22, 2025

WASHINGTON—Today, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted a preliminary injunction in Widakuswara v. Lake, affirming the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) was unlawfully shuttered by the administration, Acting Director Victor Morales and Special Adviser Kari Lake. The decision enshrines that USAGM must fulfill its legally required functions and protects the editorial independence of Voice of America (VOA) journalists and other federal media professionals within the agency and newsrooms that receive grants from the agency, such as Radio Free Asia and others.

Hearst Connecticut (finally!) heads towards an election

After an eight-month wait, journalists at Hearst Connecticut won a ruling outlining their election overseen by the National Labor Relations Board. Workers first launched their union campaign in August. The ruling was delayed by understaffing at the NLRB, which has had an essentially flat budget for the last decade.

After workers launched their union, Hearst suggested that they were not one bargaining unit but instead should be divided into five separate units. Workers presented evidence at the hearing and heard from the NLRB what they already knew:

“… the employees’ virtually identical skills, duties, and working conditions; the complete functional integration of the proposed unit; and the consistent interchange between employees assigned to different teams and different locations establish that the petitioned-for unit is an appropriate unit.”

Daily Kos staff ratify first union contract with Pacific Media Workers Guild

After more than two years of organizing, bargaining, and weathering multiple rounds of layoffs, the workers of Daily Kos have officially ratified their first collective bargaining agreement with the Pacific Media Workers Guild, Local 39521 of The NewsGuild-CWA.

Evansville journalists unanimously ratified first contract

The NewsGuild bargaining unit at the Evansville (Ind.) Courier & Press has ratified its first contract, which will bring needed raises to all six people in the unit.

Mai Hoang testifies in an Oregon legislative committee with the letter submitted in the background

Pacific Northwest Guild testifies in support of Oregon that would fund news jobs

The president of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild testified in support of a bill advancing in Oregon that would require Big Tech platforms to compensate Oregon newsrooms for local content.

Mai Hoang, the president of the Pacific Northwest Newspaper Guild, a local of The NewsGuild-CWA, testified in the Oregon State Senate Committee on Rules last week in support of Senate Bill 686, which would level the playing field and make sure large companies like Meta and Alphabet would have to pay for news appearing on their apps and websites such as Facebook, Instagram and Google.