Damn. That is indeed some awesome talent lost to a buyout

Lots of E&E News greats are walking out the door today. A true tragedy.

At least 19 of our @eenews.bsky.social Politico Pro colleagues have decided to take the buyout and leave us this week. It's no small amount. Not everyone was offered a buyout @politico.com 1/4

Unit chairs at @baltsunguild.bsky.social & @pen-guild.bsky.social joined @middayonwypr.bsky.social to talk about their outlets' use of AI. AI can be a tool to support journalists, but news organizations have deployed it in unethical ways without a human behind it. www.wypr.org/show/midday/...

The Post Guild stands with Hannah, and will continue to fight for our members’ safety and independence so that they can continue their critical work. (3/3)

in understanding the impact of the Trump administration’s policies. The extraordinary decision to execute a search warrant at a journalist’s home should shock and dismay everyone who cares about a free and independent press. (2/3)

The Washington Post Guild is alarmed and appalled by federal law enforcement’s search and seizure of reporter Hannah Natanson’s property and personal devices. Hannah is a valued member of our union whose work covering the federal workforce has been essential (1/3)

New! Reporter @bethmccowen.bsky.social attended the AI Town Hall to bring you more on the @newsguild.org "News Not Slop" week of action. the-word.news/2025/1205/ne...

/8 ✍️ Support our members fighting for AI protections in the workplace and join 2,000 by signing our petition here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

7/ Our members at Inside Higher Ed won protections to make sure journalists are not required to use AI to complete work.

6/ Journalists at the Southern California News Group won protections for human oversight of everything published on their websites.

5/ Our members at the Associated Press won language distinguishing between AI use for assisting in gathering material vs. the production of original work content. @newsmediaguild.bsky.social

4/ Members at The New Republic also won job protections, making sure the magazine can’t lay off employees or reduce their salaries if the organization uses AI. @nyguild.bsky.social

3/ Journalists at the recently unionized Grist Magazine won job protections. @pacnwguild.bsky.social

2/ Our members at Ziff Davis won job and salary protections, the creation of an AI subcommittee and language protecting editorial integrity. @zdcreatorsguild.bsky.social

More than 50 contracts across our union include language that directly addresses artificial intelligence. Earlier this week, we released our demands #NewsNotSlop ➡️ www.newsnotslop.org/demands We’re highlighting some of the best contract language enforcing these demands in the workplace here:

Today, unionized nonprofit newsrooms across the country are standing shoulder-to-shoulder to demand that news industry leaders agree to common-sense guardrails around the implementation of artificial intelligence to protect the integrity, quality and accuracy of our journalism.

Hi 👋 It has been a while since you’ve heard from us, but we’re standing side-by-side with other @nyguild.bsky.social shops to send a clear, simple message: News, not slop. Readers deserve journalism crafted by human hands. Here's how we've been fighting back during collective bargaining 👇

This after Insider laid off 25 % of staff in May. We stand in solidarity with Insider Guild. Readers deserve #newsnotslop written by humans, for humans.

There's no excuse for ProPublica's position on this issue. We need a fair contract, with real job security and GAI guardrails, now!

Additionally, management struck out: 1️⃣ Language that would prevent GAI from producing editorial work 2️⃣ A requirement that AI-generated content be clearly labeled and reviewed by human editors

It's simple — @propublica.org workers should not be replaced by artificial intelligence. Our contract proposal specifically says that generative artificial intelligence ("GAI") should not be used to replace employees. Management struck out this entire section in their response to our proposal.

Workers can regulate AI with strong contract language. Full stop. Unionized journalists just proved this at POLITICO. @pen-guild.bsky.social

Hate AI slop? Worried it’s bad for democracy and public trust? Sign this petition by @newsguild.org that takes a stand against the use of AI in a way that undermines the integrity of journalism actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

🗓️ THIS THURSDAY: We are hosting an AI Town Hall to hear from journalists who are fighting for HUMAN-driven news that's not robot-generated slop. Join us tomorrow by registering here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

NEW: LA Times journalists (@latguild.bsky.social) approved a new contract after three years of hard-fought negotiations. Under the deal, which covers more than 200 Guild members, every newsroom worker will receive a raise of at least $3,000 in the first year. newsguild.org/los-angeles-...

Read this #newsnotslop thread from the incredible folks at @pen-guild.bsky.social - who know a little something about winning on AI. Share your stories and let's keep up the conversation on AI.

A good read. #newsnotslop

We stand with our @pen-guild.bsky.social colleagues! #newsnotslop

This year we’ve seen employers pile on the AI-generated slop in our workplaces. In many cases, these AI deployments undermine the editorial ethics and standards journalists at @newsguild.org strive to uphold. 1/

YES!! 🫡 #NewsNotSlop

We at @eenews.bsky.social and @politico.com found the company wasn’t following our contract’s AI guardrails, including publishing error-ridden work well below our standards as human journalists So our union @pen-guild.bsky.social took them to arbitration — and won #PENGuild4eva #MightierTogether

3/ Sign the petition and share this with your friends and family. ✍️ We must rebuild trust in human-generated reporting undermined by the unethical use of AI. #NewsNotSlop actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...

2/ This week, we need your help! Take action at NewsNotSlop.org and follow the steps below, because holding media companies accountable on AI is going to take all of us.

RELEASE: NewsGuild journalists are sounding the alarm – media companies are undermining public trust with unethical AI in the newsroom. Today, we launch #NewsNotSlop, a national campaign kicking off a Week of Action on AI, December 1–5. newsguild.org/release-stan...

Always proud to be PEN Guild, but especially today 🥳

Exciting news: my union @pen-guild.bsky.social won our fight to hold management accountable for rolling out AI tools with no notice & for failing to hold the bots to the same standards all of us humans must follow — in violation of the contract they agreed to. A neutral arbiter said we were right!

An important win for every journalist and any worker feeling the AI creep! ✊ #NewsNotSlop

This is HUGE! This case marks one of the nation’s first major labor-arbitration rulings addressing the impact of AI on journalists’ work, setting an important precedent for the entire U.S. news industry. ✊

‼️: This is a LANDMARK win for AI protections in the workplace. NewsGuild-CWA members are LEADING this fight and making labor history!

A neutral arbiter agrees: @politico.com violated our contract and its own journalistic standards when it deployed AI. Our readers deserve news, not slop! wbng.org/2025/12/01/p...

We stand together with InsiderUnion and BIUK_Union for journalistic integrity and job security. Join us in telling @axelspringer.bsky.social NO SLOP IN OUR SHOP!

And yet @politico.com uses AI that sends glaring errors to our subscribers and violates our ethics standards. Tell POLITICO management to follow it's own rules for accurate, ethical journalism and sign our petition. actionnetwork.org/petitions/ai...

Statement from Post Guild Leadership: The Washington Post Guild condemns the unjust firing of columnist Karen Attiah

NEW: POLITICO’s top editors testified that its AI experiments don’t need to follow the newsroom’s own editorial standards. If media execs won’t protect journalism standards, NewsGuild members @pen-guild.bsky.social will! www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/poli...

Politico’s recent AI experiments shouldn’t be subject to newsroom editorial standards, its editors testify www.niemanlab.org/2025/08/poli...

TODAY: PEN Guild heads to arbitration over POLITICO’s contract-breaking use of AI. This fight could set the standard for how AI is used in newsrooms across the country. ✍️ Sign our petition and help us go into arbitration with full support: bit.ly/PENGuild

We’re taking @politico.com to arbitration this week for its unethical use of AI and we’re asking for your support! bit.ly/PENGuild

The journalists @eenews.bsky.social and @politico.com want AI to work with us, not against us. That's why @pen-guild.bsky.social is heading into arbitration this week to enforce our contract! Sign here to show your support actionnetwork.org/petitions/ai...

We’re taking @politico.com to arbitration this week for its unethical use of AI and we’re asking for your support! bit.ly/PENGuild