NWU recently implemented a simple, plain-language policy governing AI use for union business. We think it can serve as an example for organizations that want to protect members’ privacy and ensure creative work is done by creative workers. #NewsNotSlop nwu.org/ai-policy

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...

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. ✊

YES!! 🫡 #NewsNotSlop

#IDEVAW2025 #25N “Without robust, enforceable gender policies and genuine protection for journalists reporting on far-right activities, all the progress we have fought for could be undone in an instant" Maria Angeles Samperio, IFJ Gender Council chair www.ifj.org/media-centre...

I've known and worked alongside Dave since I began my reporting career as a freelancer. He's fearless, exceptionally kind, and covers what others don't. Please read and consider supporting his GoFundMe (linked in the article)

HUGE!!! 🗞️✊🏼

Great night at Powell’s Books for Jonathan Rosenblum’s book, We’re Coming for You and Your Rotten System, in conversation. Proud to have NWU Oregon chapter leaders there supporting writers and worker power. @thenationalwritersunion @nwu.org @powells.bsky.social

On Transgender Day of Remembrance, we mourn our lost siblings and call for justice. Trade unions have a duty to defend trans workers. An injury to one is an injury to all ✊🏿 #TDoR #TransDayOfRemembrance #TransRightsAreHumanRights #LGBTIWorkers

On Transgender Day of Remembrance, support media orgs like @transjournalists.org doing vital work to materially support queer & trans media workers, & check out this resource page by @fspnwu.bsky.social on pushing for better labor conditions freelancesolidarity.org/kyr-trans-me...

This #TransgenderAwarenessWeek, we're launching the Trans News Initiative - a nearly yearlong project dedicated to tracking and analyzing news coverage of trans communities across the United States. transnewsinitiative.org

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About a month later, on November 19, 1981, the National Writers Union was formed. Happy birthday, NWU! 🎈

I'm here with a cohort from the Literary Translators Division of the National Writers Union: @nwu.org We're organizing for better working conditions, especially pay, which hasn't come anywhere near keeping pace with the cost of living for DECADES. nwu.org/chapters/toc/

We join @ifjglobal.bsky.social and our sibling union Palestinian Journalists' Syndicate in strongly and openly condemning Israel's unending assault on media workers and the Palestinian people.

🚨 @noticiastelemundo.com & @uninoticias.bsky.social broadcast Trump’s deportation messaging straight into our homes. This is intimidation. And they’re doing it to the very people who built their audience. Don't stay quiet 🗣️ Tell them to pull the ads. #ApagaElOdio www.apagaelodio.com

Support independent journalists!

NWU member @octoberk.bsky.social thoroughly illustrates how the attacks on pro-Palestine int'l students and faculty normalized violence and repression of immigrant communities by ICE. We remain committed to protecting the right to organize and pushing pack on political repression.

Stand with Condé Nast Union 🚨 We’re calling on you to sign our petition telling management to reinstate the Fired Four, reverse the suspensions, and end the union busting. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

What does it take to win? Our campaigns coordinator Eric Thurm knows! From field leading Zohran Mamdani's mayoral campaign to organizing for workers' rights with NWU, Eric's experience demonstrates the power of meaningful connections. @amyhoggart.bsky.social

We stand in solidarity with our @condeunion.bsky.social siblings at @teenvogue.com who were unceremoniously laid off last week. Layoffs are not a solution to unbalanced budgets, especially when those laid off come from marginalized backgrounds typically not represented at major media orgs.

After the hopescrolling, what comes next? One of our members has some ideas.

See 38, 43, 47, 54-55 + 56 for @nwu.org Literary Translators Division offerings at #ALTA48: literarytranslators.org/wp-content/u... * We Can Spell Solidarity Without U, But Don’t Want To * Solidarity Drop-in: Don’t Mourn, Organize! * Envisioning the Perfect Contract * Rate-Sharing Edit-a-Thon (2x)

Even when a company is based in a state with strong labor laws, those protections often don’t extend to remote #freelancers. This loophole lets companies dodge accountability entirely. We’re fighting to close it through legislation. Donate to the legal fund today: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

US media is complicit in manufacturing consent for Israel's genocide against the Palestinian people, with none more influential than the New York Times. We support the 300+ writers, scholars, & public figures who have made a collective commitment to hold NYT accountable. boycottdivestunsubscribe.com

"Guevara had not given up hope of one day returning to the US, where he said he had a fully paid house and was striving for legal permanent residency at the time of his deportation." Being a member of the media is not a crime. Being an immigrant is not a crime.

Speaking of freelancers, looking out for fellow freelance creatives is really important to me. We worked with @nwu.org and @fspnwu.bsky.social to develop contributor guidelines to protect freelancers, be transparent about our relationships, and set fair pay standards.

Tomorrow with @bookcritics.bsky.social! In our union, an injury to one is an injury to all. Hear how we've won back-pay, better treatment, and fair resolutions for media workers in disputes with publishers and others. Register at tinyurl.com/3NPD6PBU.

Have you ever found yourself waiting endlessly to be paid for your writing? That's where we come in. In this event, co-sponsored with @bookcritics.bsky.social, join NWU’s David Hill and Daisy Alioto to hear how we handle grievances ranging from copyright violations to editorial malpractice.

(Are you a writer? Join @nwu.org today!)

Can confirm!

“I announced…I’m a journalist, I’m press.” The woman to my left hissed, “We don’t give a fuck,” and the other dug her nails into my scalp and pulled me by my hair across the port.” U.S. allies abducting and torturing American journalists isn’t a problem to this administration.

"For Palestinians, as for the Irish and many other peoples, poetry has long been a vital tool for expressing resistance and documenting their experiences," member Bill Nevins writes in a blog post about the role of the U.S. Poet Laureate. nwu.org/poet-laureate/

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge blocks DHS/ICE from arresting journalists and using chemical weapons on peaceful protestors and the Chicago press. Alongside the @chicagonewsguild.bsky.social, we will fight the Trump administration’s assault on our First Amendment rights. newsguild.org/release-fede...

I finally got around to reading this v helpful guide to the Anthropic lawsuit. Highly recommended if you think you might be among the countless whose work was stolen by the company to "train" its LLM chatbot Claude. Translators very much included! nwu.org/anthropic/

We signed on because as a labor union representing independent media workers, we both feel and agree that indie journalists are "particularly susceptible to retaliation, intimidation, & violence, & attacks on them should be treated w/ the same seriousness as attacks on better known journalists."

📚 Available Now: My Interview with AllAuthor! I’m honored to be featured on AllAuthor, where I share how my journey in community organizing, digital engagement, and storytelling shapes everything I write. 🔍 Read the interview allauthor.com/interview/kaceycarpenter/ @allauthor.bsky.social @nwu.org

For two years, the world has watched a genocide unfold in Gaza on our phone screens. 64,000+ Palestinians murdered by Israel. We honor the journalists in Gaza who’ve become the world's eyes & conscience, many of whom have been targeted & killed for telling the truth. 🎨: Peonica Fernando

🔴 In two years of war, over 223 Palestinian journalists have been killed in #Gaza in the deadliest period in the history of journalism. As journalists, unionists and, ultimately, humans, we cannot accept that reporters are killed amid indifference, be that in Gaza or elsewhere.

#USA: IFJ strongly denounces the deportation of journalist Mario Guevara to El Salvador on 3 October, as he was targeted for his journalistic work and his exposure of ICE. @nwu.org @newsguild.org @authorsguild.org #PressFreedom #JournalismIsNotaCrime

All you really need to know about whether this Anthropic settlement is actually good for authors or not is that OpenAI is celebrating and very happy about it.

Journalist Mario Guevara is being deported because the American government punishes reporters to protect its own power. We should all be outraged. freedom.press/issues/mario...

Student journalist Lucas Griffith faces trial today for covering a protest against the deportation of Ayman Soliman, who himself fled persecution for his journalism in Egypt. Lucas did nothing wrong. This is a big deal and would be national news in normal times.

📚✊ The NWU Oregon Chapter gathered at Hodge Podge Books in Eugene to build solidarity, welcome potential new members, and share food, drinks & good books. Together, we’re organizing writers & allies for justice across Oregon.

Searchable list of works included in tentative settlement of #copyright #infringement lawsuit against #Anthropic AI made public: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup FAQ from the National Writers Union about what this means for writers: nwu.org/anthropic/

The Translators Organizing Committee (TOC) is hosting their next solidarity drop-in session! 📍 Where: Zoom 🕢 When: Wednesday, October 8, 7:30-8:45pm ET 📨 Email us to reserve your spot! [email protected]

We agree with Murad Awawdeh of @thenyic.bsky.social who said: "Whether it’s family members attending court, community members offering court watch support, or journalists exercising their constitutional right to document events, ICE has shown a blatant disregard for human dignity and safety."

#USA: ICE agents assaulted and shoved journalists. Homeland Security said the agents’ behavior was a response to being “swarmed by agitators and members of the press”. We strongly condemn these attacks! #PressFresdom @newsguild.org @nwu.org

Proposed restrictions on visas for reporters show the U.S. “becoming less open and welcoming to foreign journalists…It is antithetical to the core values of American society as embodied in the First Amendment.” Proud to join @rsf.org and others in this statement. rsf.org/sites/defaul...

We signed on to this statement because we agree that these proposed changes would put an undue burden on journalists and have a chilling effect on media that is critical of the Trump administration.