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NewsGuild-CWA
The NewsGuild-CWA is a labor union founded by newspaper journalists in 1933. Members now include the Democratic Socialists of America and left-wing activist groups unaffiliated with journalism such as Jewish Voice for Peace.
The NewsGuild-CWA's constitution says its purpose is to fight for honesty in journalism and the news industry's business practices in addition to improving wages and working conditions. The NewsGuild-CWA now represents workers in a wide range of roles including socialist organizations such as the Democratic Socialists of America, left-wing activist groups such as Jewish Voice for Peace, editorial, technology, advertising, and others at newspapers, online publications, magazines, news services, and in broadcast. The current president is Jon Schleuss.
The organization's founders were Joseph Cookman an editor of the New York Post, Allen Raymond of the New York Herald Tribune and Heywood Broun of the New York World-Telegram. The inaugural chapter was based in Cleveland, Ohio, and Carl Randau was its first director from 1934 to 1940. It was originally called the American Newspaper Guild, but it simplified its name to Newspaper Guild in the 1970s to reflect the fact that it also operated outside the United States. It had expanded into Canada in the 1950s.
It became affiliated with the American Federation of Labor in 1936, then left to go into the new Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1937, when it expanded its membership to non-editorial departments. It merged with the Communications Workers of America in 1995. The Guild is also affiliated with the International Federation of Journalists.
The Guild has more than 25,000 members in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Its membership has expanded from just journalists to many other employees of newspapers and news agencies, such as clerks who take classified ads and computer support workers. It also represents workers in a number of other industries.
In 2015, the union changed its name from Newspaper Guild to its current name, NewsGuild, to reflect that newspapers are not the only publishers of news.
In 2021, the union changed its logo to reincorporate an eye motif from the original logos back to the union's founding and to modernize the look of the union for the future.
In 2024, media outlets reported that a high-profile organizer for the NewsGuild, Nastaran Mohit, wrote several posts on X that some NewsGuild members deemed anti-Semitic. The Guild hired a law firm to investigate the actions as well as those of other Guild staffers who wrote criticism of the work of the journalists they represent in labor negotiations. “It’s clear that some of the people we pay to represent us hate us because … they not only attack the New York Times but journalism itself,” one longtime staffer told The New York Post.
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NewsGuild-CWA
The NewsGuild-CWA is a labor union founded by newspaper journalists in 1933. Members now include the Democratic Socialists of America and left-wing activist groups unaffiliated with journalism such as Jewish Voice for Peace.
The NewsGuild-CWA's constitution says its purpose is to fight for honesty in journalism and the news industry's business practices in addition to improving wages and working conditions. The NewsGuild-CWA now represents workers in a wide range of roles including socialist organizations such as the Democratic Socialists of America, left-wing activist groups such as Jewish Voice for Peace, editorial, technology, advertising, and others at newspapers, online publications, magazines, news services, and in broadcast. The current president is Jon Schleuss.
The organization's founders were Joseph Cookman an editor of the New York Post, Allen Raymond of the New York Herald Tribune and Heywood Broun of the New York World-Telegram. The inaugural chapter was based in Cleveland, Ohio, and Carl Randau was its first director from 1934 to 1940. It was originally called the American Newspaper Guild, but it simplified its name to Newspaper Guild in the 1970s to reflect the fact that it also operated outside the United States. It had expanded into Canada in the 1950s.
It became affiliated with the American Federation of Labor in 1936, then left to go into the new Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1937, when it expanded its membership to non-editorial departments. It merged with the Communications Workers of America in 1995. The Guild is also affiliated with the International Federation of Journalists.
The Guild has more than 25,000 members in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Its membership has expanded from just journalists to many other employees of newspapers and news agencies, such as clerks who take classified ads and computer support workers. It also represents workers in a number of other industries.
In 2015, the union changed its name from Newspaper Guild to its current name, NewsGuild, to reflect that newspapers are not the only publishers of news.
In 2021, the union changed its logo to reincorporate an eye motif from the original logos back to the union's founding and to modernize the look of the union for the future.
In 2024, media outlets reported that a high-profile organizer for the NewsGuild, Nastaran Mohit, wrote several posts on X that some NewsGuild members deemed anti-Semitic. The Guild hired a law firm to investigate the actions as well as those of other Guild staffers who wrote criticism of the work of the journalists they represent in labor negotiations. “It’s clear that some of the people we pay to represent us hate us because … they not only attack the New York Times but journalism itself,” one longtime staffer told The New York Post.