The NewsGuild is a democratic union, where members set the agenda and locals are self-governing. Leaders are elected through direct, one-person, one-vote, elections. National decisions are made at biennial conferences, which typically occur just prior to the conventions of the Guild’s parent union, the Communications Workers of America. 

The Executive Council guides the Guild’s work between the union’s biennial conferences. It is comprised of a Chairperson, a President (who also serves as a CWA Vice-President), an Executive Vice President, six Regional Vice-Presidents and the President of CWA/SCA Canada.

International Chair Diane Mastrull
Diane has been president of the Newspaper Guild of Greater Philadelphia since January 2018 and a Guild member at The Philadelphia Inquirer since 1997. She is a night and weekend editor. When she’s not editing stories on nights and weekends, negotiating contracts or organizing demonstrations for pay raises or against threatened layoffs, Diane runs. A lot. Notably, she runs Philly’s most popular race, the Broad Street 10-miler, and the annual Philadelphia Half Marathon. She believes running teaches valuable lessons about setting and achieving goals — an important aspect of bargaining! Follow Diane on Twitter @dmastrull or contact her at dimastrull@gmail.com.

President Jon Schleuss
Jon (he/him/his) grew up in rural Arkansas reading the morning Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and the afternoon Camden News. He found his way into journalism through college radio. He became the online editor of the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette at age 21, moving the paper to do more breaking news, use social media and report live election results. In 2013 he joined the Los Angeles Times as a data and graphics journalist, writing and telling innovative stories using computer programming. He taught journalism students how to code at the University of Southern California. He was part of the group of workers who organized the Times in 2018. He ran for president and won in 2019. As NewsGuild president, Jon serves on the Executive Board of the CWA. He lives in Washington, D.C. Follow Jon on Twitter @gaufre or contact him at jschleuss@cwa-union.org.

Executive Vice President Marian Needham
Marian comes to The NewsGuild through the Buffalo local, where she was the administrative officer. She was hired by the national union in 1990, first as director of contract administration, and later, as a sector rep. Marian was elected to a second term as executive vice president in 2019. You can reach Marian at mneedham@cwa-union.org.

CWA Canada President Carmel Smyth
Carmel is president of CWA Canada and sits on both The NewsGuild and CWA Executive boards. She’s an award-winning journalist who has worked across Canada for private and public broadcasting, in radio, television and online for 25 years. She was the national president of the Canadian Media Guild for nine years. Contact Carmel at csmyth@cwacanada.ca.

Regional Vice Presidents
Regional vice presidents serve on the Executive Council, which oversees the Guild’s national operation. They are responsible for conveying concerns from locals in their region to the E.C., and for providing locals with reports on TNG and E.C. actions and activities. They serve as a conduit between the union’s national operations and the administrative officers, local presidents and other activists in their regions.

Kathy McCabe, Region 1 Vice President
Kathy is the treasurer of the Boston Newspaper Guild TNG-CWA 31245 and is a metro reporter and editor at the Boston Globe. Follow her on Twitter @globekmccabe or contact her at katherinemmccabe@comcast.net.

Dan Gabor, Region 2 Vice President
Dan (he/him/his) is the President-elect of the Washington-Baltimore NewsGuild for the 2022-2023 term. He has been a member of the Guild since 2016, working at the AFL-CIO as a Senior Data Coordinator. Dan is passionate about modernizing our union, leveraging the power of new technology and new organizing tactics to seize the moment, build strong unions, mobilize NewsGuild members, and increase worker power. Dan was elected to the TNG Executive Council at the October 2021 sector conference. Follow Dan on twitter @dan_gabor or contact him at dan.m.gabor@gmail.com.

Sandy Tan, Region 3 Vice President
Sandy has been an active member of the Buffalo Newspaper Guild TNG-CWA Local 31026 for more than 20 years and served two terms as president through 2022, helping to negotiate some of the most difficult contracts in the Guild’s history. She works as a full-time Buffalo News reporter covering the Erie County government, the largest county in Western New York. She’s an advocate for openness and transparency, member engagement and mobilization. Follow her on Twitter @SandraTanBN or contact her at santan716@gmail.com.

Michael Cabanatuan, Region 4 Vice President
Michael has spent the better part of two decades as a Guild activist and even longer than that as a journalist. He’s in his fourth term as vice president of The NewsGuild-CWA  Sector Executive Committee, where he represents members and locals west of the Rockies. Cabanatuan joined the Guild in Modesto, where he helped bargain The Bee’s first contract after seven years under posted conditions. He was president of the Pacific Media Workers Guild, Local 39521, for 10 years, and is a reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle, where he covers general news and breaking news after years as a transportation writer. Follow him on Twitter @ctuan or contact him at CTUAN@aol.com.

Jodi Green, Region 5 Vice President
Jodi has been the President of IAPE TNG-CWA Local 1096 since 2021, negotiating 4 contracts as well as Covid bargaining. In 2024, she led the first strike vote in IAPE’s 87-year history, which ultimately led to one of the strongest contracts in the industry. Recently, she led a team that did a complete overhaul of the union’s bylaws, introducing new language around organizing new units. Jodi is passionate about protecting the rights of workers and building strong and powerful unions. You can contact her at jodi.green@iape1096.org.

Andrew Carillo, Region 6 Vice President
Andrew is the 1st vice president of the Denver Newspaper Guild TNG-CWA Local 37074 and a senior organizer at Service Employees International Union Local 105. Contact him at andrewcarillo@gmail.com.

The NewsGuild-CWA staff

The NewsGuild staff helps our members build vibrant union organizing campaigns and achieve strong collective bargaining agreements. Some come directly from Guild units; others come with experience in the broader labor movement. They all come to the union’s national staff with a deep commitment to the fight for justice and the future of journalism. 

Nicholas Bedell
Nicholas joined the Guild as administrative director in March 2021. Prior to coming on board, he was the director of campaigns for the Transport Workers Union. His union career started in 1990 as a labor educator in the Needle Trades Unions and he has worked in a variety of capacities over the years for multiple unions – as new organizing lead, staff representative and director of union education.

Stephanie Basile
Stephanie coordinates new organizing for the NewsGuild-CWA. She’s been with the Guild since 2017, where she constantly seeks to build workers’ power. Before coming to the Guild, she worked as an organizer at the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU-UFCW).

Kevin Brokt
After a decade of work as a labor activist, Kevin joined The NewsGuild in 2019 inspired by the unprecedented organizing momentum of journalists and news media professionals. Although he is based in California, Kevin works across the country providing organizing resources to aid the growth of our movement. He says, “NewsGuild members are clearly building a robust platform not only to advocate for themselves, but also for the communities they serve through their work. As a result, dedicating myself to supporting their organizing efforts is doubly rewarding!” In July 2023 Kevin became a staff representative at the Guild.

Dominique Edmondson
Dominique is a senior technical specialist who has worked at the NewsGuild since 1999, performing a wide variety of administrative duties. She frequently works with global organizations and foreign journalists to help them obtain visas to work in the U.S. Born and raised in France, Dominique is bilingual. She has tolerance and understanding of other cultures and is known for her outstanding proofreading skills.

Nhi Nguyen
Nhi is The NewsGuild’s administrative secretary. After years of working in the federal government, they joined the labor movement in 2025. Prior to joining the Guild, Nhi was an organizer at SEIU Local 500. Based in Washington, DC, Nhi is also active in grassroots organizing.

Lou Grieco
Before becoming a staff rep, Lou worked as a reporter for the Dayton Daily News for 20 years. During his last 14 years at the paper, Grieco was a union officer, including president for the final seven years. He moved to Detroit in 2013 to become administrative officer of the Newspaper Guild of Detroit. Two years later, he moved to the international staff, where he is assigned to assist locals across the Midwest and South in bargaining, organizing, grievance and administration issues. Grieco is co-author of Death as a Living – Investigating Murder in the American Heartland, which was released in December 2021.

Katherine Munroe
Katherine has been a Guild member since 1999, after joining the staff of the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. Her first role in the union was shop steward. She held the position of unit chair and executive board member before being elected president and eventually administrative officer of The NewsGuild of Maine.

Danielle Newsome
Danielle is excited to join the NewsGuild as a staff rep and return to her roots in the labor movement. After studying labor relations and engaging in student activism, Danielle worked as a union organizer. She went on to law school and practiced labor law at a mid-size firm before serving as a staff attorney (and NewsGuild member!) for a state federation. Most recently, Danielle took a detour from traditional labor to launch a wage theft prosecution unit for the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office. 

Dylan Manshack
Dylan joins The NewsGuild-CWA staff as Communications Coordinator after serving as a Communications staff member with the Washington-Baltimore NewsGuild (Local 32025). Before joining the Guild, he worked at the money-in-politics watchdog OpenSecrets as a Digital Communications Specialist in its newsroom, reporting on and promoting campaign finance research. A professional videographer and photographer, Dylan brings a background in community-based journalism, reflected in his coverage of NewsGuild strikes and contract fights. He moved from Shreveport, Louisiana, to Washington, DC, in 2023 and is active in the community.

Lauren Selig
Lauren Selig is based in Washington, D.C., and has spent her career in the nonprofit, political, and labor sectors. After falling in love with labor organizing while serving as a steward in a Teamsters local, she completed the Rising Organizers fellowship for emerging and established organizers in the DC-Maryland-Virginia area and has continued working closely with them for several years. Lauren later joined Campaign Workers Guild, eventually serving on their Executive Council and working with units as a National Labor Representative. When she’s not organizing, you can find her watching drag, baking, or cheering on the Washington Spirit and Liverpool FC. 

TNG International Pension Fund Staff
Scott Bush, Assistant to the Trustees
Nikki Myers, Secretary to TNGIPF
Chanel Holland, Secretary to the TNGIPF