FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, October 9, 2025
Media Contact: LA Times Guild Officers, unit-council@latguilld.com
LOS ANGELES, CALIF. — An overwhelming majority of Los Angeles Times journalists have voted to authorize their union’s leaders to call a strike if such a step is necessary to reach a new contract.
Continue reading “RELEASE: L.A. Times journalists vote to authorize strike newsroom’s first open-ended strike”
Radio Free Asia may soon be getting its Congressionally-mandated funding [again]. Late Wednesday the full bench of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit lifted a stay that had blocked a preliminary injunction ordering the U.S. Agency for Global Media to distribute Congressionally mandated funds to grantees including Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe and others. We’ve got about 100 members at Radio Free Asia and the vast majority were furloughed in March after President Trump signed an executive order essentially shuttering the agency and several newsrooms.
Continue reading “Newsletter: Susan DeCarava of NewsGuild of New York makes history”
The U.S. Senate has a chance to pass the bi-partisan PRESS Act, a bill that would protect journalists and sources from government overreach. The legislation would create protections that already exist in almost every U.S. state. It would protect against future administrations intimidating whistleblowers and journalists and increase protections already provided in the First Amendment.
Continue reading “Newsletter: The U.S. Senate has a chance to pass the bi-partisan PRESS Act”
Yesterday morning, Vice Presidential Candidate JD Vance crossed our picket line at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which is America’s current longest-running strike.
Continue reading “Newsletter: JD Vance crossed our picket line plus NewsGuild wins this week”