Rules for Nomination and Election to fill Vacancy in Unit Positions of TIME Magazine Unit
In a nomination meeting at TIME Magazine on December 7, 2018, one Guild member was nominated to fill the open Unit Chair position.
Ziff Davis Editorial Workers have Unionized!
On November 29, 2018, the editorial workers of Ziff Davis — including Mashable, PC Magazine, Geek.com and AskMen — announced their unionization effort and asked management to voluntarily recognize the NewsGuild of New York as their bargaining agent. Welcome to the NY Guild, Ziff Davis Creators Guild! Learn more.
Combatting Sexual Harassment Together
Read the Executive Committee's letter to the local's membership on the union's commitment to protect and defend any member who might be dealing with harassment in the workplace. Additionally, find out how the Guild can be of service to its members in such situations and how, as coworkers, we can comfort and assist anyone dealing with harassment.
Get to know Stephanie Brumsey of Reuters, how her careers has evolved as a producer, and why the Guild community of peers is vital to her professional development.
Organize With Us
Democracy depends on journalism, and there’s no better time for media organizations to unionize.
Testimonials
Hilary Russ
Journalist, Reuters
“One of the NewsGuild’s biggest strengths is that they understand the journalism business so well. We all want to do the best journalism we can. And it’s important to know that it’s not just about a contract… the Guild wants to make sure that their journalists are doing the best work that they can. And that’s important to me because I care about the quality of the work that I do.”
Kia Johnson
Producer, Reuters
"Guild membership is important to push back on management policies that affect our members’ financial well-being, health care, and work-life balance."
A.O. Scott
Critic, New York Times
"...The value of our work is always in danger of being undermined or taken for granted, and the only way we can protect it is together."
Sami Diaz
Senior Development Associate, Roosevelt Institute
"With the Guild, you have such a strong community you can turn to, both in your workplace and in the larger network of like-minded people."
Ken Belson
NFL Writer, New York Times
"Unity is critical in a business where the bosses are trying to slash costs, take away benefits and gut morale with continuous layoffs and buyouts."
Alex Press
Assistant Editor, Jacobin
"The Guild’s a structure connected to my work, but not aligned with the interests of my employer, which means I know they have my back. Unions are just the word we use to describe the power that comes from workers acting collectively, and that power is multiplied way beyond what my small shop could achieve because we’re connected to all the other publications represented by the Guild. And that’s a hell of a lot better than trying to navigate this industry on my own!"
Sindhu Sundar
Features Reporter, Law360
"At a time of cutbacks and layoffs in corporate-controlled media organizations, journalists need reliable support infrastructure to protect functional working conditions and to give them a feasible way to seek recourse if needed."
Sarah Leonard
Senior Editor, The Nation
"Union protections allow us to speak our minds at work, whether or not we think our boss will agree. That makes for a far better and more interesting newsroom."
10 Questions with The New Yorker's Natalie Meade
If NewsGuild of New York member and New Yorker fact-checker Natalie Meade wasn’t in the media industry, she’d have her PhD in behavioral psychology and be working as a jury consultant—think Criminal Minds but without the serial killers. Meade attended the University of Delaware for her bachelors in mass communication and psychology, but luckily for us, she transitioned into journalism and earned her masters from Columbia Journalism School. Get to know Natalie!
Read more … 10 Questions with The New Yorker's Natalie Meade
Rules for Nomination and Election of delegates to the TNG Sector Conference
The nomination and election to fill four positions as delegates to the January 2019 TNG Sector Conference officers shall be conducted in accordance with the Bylaws of The NewsGuild of New York, as amended April 30, 2015, Federal Law, and these rules adopted by the Local Election Committee.
Read more … Rules for Nomination and Election of delegates to the TNG Sector Conference
“Outrage shares” and clickbait Mad Libs: A former Mic employee describes his frustrating (for all involved) stint there
Whenever a company in the public eye fails, out come the tell-alls, the instant memoirs, the this-is-what-it-was-like-on-the-inside tweetstorms and blogposts. And so it is with Mic, the digital publisher that met its end (at least in its existing iteration) with a $5 million fire sale to Bustle last month, despite having previously claimed a valuation...
What does membership mean for BuzzFeed News — at a company that’s already raised nearly $500 million in venture capital?
It was a year ago that Jonah Peretti re-gridded BuzzFeed’s strategy, with BuzzFeed News set aside in its own column that would later become its own distinct website. It would never go behind a paywall, unlike other news organizations “because your ability to access news is important every day” — but after raising half a...
“So many times we forget to listen”: How Spaceship Media moderated a Facebook group of 400 political women without it going off the rails
When I spoke with Spaceship Media’s cofounders a year ago, they were about to embark on creating arguably the most ambitious news-centric Facebook group in existence: A goal of 5,000 women with diverse views in one group, talking about politics without everything self-imploding. The Many, as Eve Pearlman and Jeremy Hay dubbed it, was an...