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We are the New York area workplace advocate for people in the news business, and that includes some of the best journalists in the country.

The Newspaper Guild of New York represents more than 3,000 employees at New York area-based news organizations, as well as a few non-news organizations.

Since its launch in 1934 by crusading columnist Heywood Broun and others, the Guild has been the voice in the workplace for practitioners of big-city journalism and employees in advertising, circulation and other related areas. It started with newspapers, but today the Guild’s reach extends to workers in all media.

CWA SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE


Guild members, their spouses, children and grandchildren are eligible for 15 $3000 scholarships awarded by the CWA for the 2012-13 academic year.

Winners are chosen by lottery. Deadline is April 30.

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Janet Robinson's golden parachute prompted an open letter to Times Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. on Jan. 4 from 566 current and former employees. CLICK HERE FOR LETTER AND NAMES

Times Guild members pack meeting for update on contract talks on Jan. 9

Times Guild members pack meeting for update on contract talks on Jan. 9

    Local and Unit News

    Reuters journalist nominated for Executive Committee vacancy

    February 22, 2012

    LOCAL BULLETIN - The New York Guild’s Representative Assembly (RA) has named Moira Herbst of Thomson Reuters as its candidate to replace Priscilla Sutton, who left the Executive Committee when her administrative group at Thomson Reuters was eliminated. Herbst was nominated without opposition at the February 21 RA Meeting.

    Times negotiator tells Guild current pension plan must go

    February 13, 2012

    TIMES (NEWSPAPER) - At a full negotiating session between the Guild and Times management today, the Times’s lead negotiator, outside lawyer Bernard Plum, stated unequivocally, “The pension plan you’re in has to go.” He added that there would be no contract agreement unless there is “a solution to the pension issue.”

    Three-year contract ratified at oldest Spanish-language daily

    February 3, 2012

    EL DIARIO - Journalists, technicians and other news professionals have approved a contract with El Diario, a subsidiary of privately held ImpreMedia LLC. The agreement was ratified by a margin of two to one, ending seven months of tense negotiations, and provides enhanced packages for 17 members facing layoff.

    #ReutersFacts: Thomson Reuters follows editorial safeguards

    February 2, 2012

    THOMSON REUTERS - Thomson Reuters has become a hashtag punchline on Twitter as the result of an ineptly handled story about Florida Senator Marco Rubio that needed a major overhaul. As has happened before, editorial safeguards that have been in place for decades were disregarded, with disastrous results.

    Industry News

    East Bay papers to consolidate, cut 8% of staff

    February 23, 2012

    As newspapers nationwide struggle to evolve viable business models, Bay Area News Group said Tuesday it will consolidate 11 local newspapers in the East Bay into two regional newspapers and lay off 8 percent of the staff.

    What readers want to read next

    February 23, 2012

    We’d all like to know what comes next. That can be a spiritual quest, a political one, or in the case of news publishers, one that would help them know what it is readers who land on their site would like to read next.

    McClatchy second-quarter profits, revenue fall

    February 23, 2012

    The McClatchy Co. today reported lower profits and revenue in the second quarter, as The Bee’s owner continues to struggle with a weak economy and structural changes in the newspaper industry.

    The Newsonomics of Netflix

    February 23, 2012

    Netflix CEO Reed Hastings says he is surprised that customers weren’t more upset with Netflix’s digital shift. After all, he expected more upset, in his role as a pioneer, early in the game of forcing the digital shift.