President @newsguild. VP @CWAUnion. Past: @latimes data/graphics/coding journalist. Every worker should build a union. he/him ✊🏳️🌈
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🚨NEW: Journalists at two Ohio newspapers owned by USA TODAY Co. are withholding their bylines from stories featuring an AI bot that shares inaccurate information. The tool violates the company’s standards of requiring a “human in the loop,” raising editorial integrity concerns.
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We need news, not slop.
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Should an AI bot write your news? The unionized employees of the @PioneerPress don't think so.
Tell our bosses that you don't want an algorithm deciding what you read: act.aflcio.org/letters/tell-…
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Solidarity with our @NUJofficial family going on strike this morning at The Lancet, a 200+ year-old medical journal. Fair contract now! ✊🇬🇧
Our members at The Lancet are taking further strike action for fair pay this week.
Elsevier, who owns The Lancet, made an adjusted operating profit of over a billion last year so the company can afford to address pay erosion.
Live coverage⬇️
nuj.org.uk/resource/lancet-s…
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The new State of Local News report from @LocalNewsIni has officially dropped, describing 2026 as a “Super El Niño Year for Local News.”
Learn more below: localnewsinitiative.northwes…
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We're proud to say we've secured a new 3-year contract at The Inquirer, approved by a majority of our a majority of our 238 members! Here's what we won:
#unionstrong #localnewsmatter
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"Labor law currently...is working for the billionaire and the oligarch class and not for regular workers," said NewsGuild president @gaufre on the @RickSmithShow.
"We have to reform but it's only going to happen if we all stand up together."
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Breaking: Post-Gazette union-busters have hit a dead end at Supreme Court and must pay back millions to @newsguild-CWA journalists.
cwa-union.org/news/releases/…
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Philly is one of the first cities in the country to formally support boycotting Starbucks | Council roundup ebx.sh/gQ66ut
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actionnetwork.org/letters/as…
Link also in bio.
#standwithstartelegramreporters
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McClatchy laid off 90+ talented journalists. Workers are all in to continue producing high-quality journalism for their communities. Write a letter to McClatchy to ask what their priorities are: actionnetwork.org/letters/as…
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BREAKING: The Idaho Statesman's hedge fund owner now admits it chose to gut its newspapers to reinvest resources elsewhere, contradicting earlier claims about financial struggles.
Tell McClatchy executives you won’t stand for this devastating choice. Here's what to know:
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Today is the last day for dozens of our talented OHG colleagues laid off by McClatchy. The rest of us are all in to continue producing high-quality journalism for our community. Is McClatchy? Join us in writing to ask: actionnetwork.org/letters/as…
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"I applaud these news organizations for pushing back immediately against Trump’s illegal behavior,” said @gaufre, the president of The NewsGuild-CWA.
"This is yet again another shameful moment for our country."
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The Pentagon Press Association just released this statement:
"The Pentagon Press Association expresses its solidarity with White House reporters banned by President Donald Trump. The PPA notes that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth expressed his support for the decision, almost a year after he took the unprecedented step of withdrawing the valid press credentials of nearly the entirety of the Pentagon Press Corps. Our position then, as it is now, is that media access to the Pentagon, as well as others federal agencies, is critical to ensuring the flow of independent, accurate information to the American people about what their government does in their names."
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Our Service Reporter Hali Smith explains what McClatchy’s massive layoffs mean for Idaho. 📰
Prefer to watch videos on TikTok? You can follow us there too at IdahoNewsGuild_
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@newsguild president @gaufre: “This is yet again another shameful moment for our country.... The First Amendment includes a free press so that tyrants wouldn’t be allowed to control what the public sees or hears.” More here: newsguild.org/newsguild-cond…
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In the past two weeks, I've penned or significantly contributed to about 24 articles (bylines and taglines), averaging more than 2 stories per workday. And we're talking some whopper topics that have spanned multiple back-to-back stories I wish I'd had the time to look into even further, including:
A) The Northern Iron Foundry calling it quits
B) The city's closure of the Pig's Eye homeless encampment
C) The St. Paul City Council attempting to block a "Right to Repair" renter measure
D) The St. Paul City Council settling a defamation suit for $350,000
E) A look at 21 new businesses that opened downtown
F) The county commissioner race (Isa vs. Noecker)
G) The mayor's city budget address
H) A sex harassment investigation involving the mayor and police
I) Fringe Festival reviews
Nope, I don't pretend for a moment that I tackled all of those stories (or any of those, really) alone. We've got a great team at the @PioneerPress, but it's smaller than ever, and this pace is unsustainable. Also, the pay sucks.
We need more reporters, a raise and some guarantees around here... Say it with me, St. Paul. For everyone working in the @PioneerPress newsroom: "FAIR CONTRACT NOW!"
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Hear it directly from our member, Frederick Melo, about how things are going at the Pioneer Press Bargaining.
In the past two weeks, I've penned or significantly contributed to about 24 articles (bylines and taglines), averaging more than 2 stories per workday. And we're talking some whopper topics that have spanned multiple back-to-back stories I wish I'd had the time to look into even further, including:
A) The Northern Iron Foundry calling it quits
B) The city's closure of the Pig's Eye homeless encampment
C) The St. Paul City Council attempting to block a "Right to Repair" renter measure
D) The St. Paul City Council settling a defamation suit for $350,000
E) A look at 21 new businesses that opened downtown
F) The county commissioner race (Isa vs. Noecker)
G) The mayor's city budget address
H) A sex harassment investigation involving the mayor and police
I) Fringe Festival reviews
Nope, I don't pretend for a moment that I tackled all of those stories (or any of those, really) alone. We've got a great team at the @PioneerPress, but it's smaller than ever, and this pace is unsustainable. Also, the pay sucks.
We need more reporters, a raise and some guarantees around here... Say it with me, St. Paul. For everyone working in the @PioneerPress newsroom: "FAIR CONTRACT NOW!"
