Reporters and editors at the commonly owned New York news sites DNAinfo and Gothamist are now represented by a union. The newsroom workers initially agreed to join the union, the Writers Guild of America East, in April, shortly after DNAinfo bought Gothamist. But DNAinfo’s owner, Joe Ricketts, refused to recognize the union, so the National Labor Relations Board conducted a formal vote on Thursday. Gothamist, with a smaller staff but wider readership, is a blog with attitude that combines original reporting, cultural coverage and aggregation. I don’t know.” DNAinfo had laid off several employees before buying Gothamist, and laid off several more after.

Source: New York Times October 27, 2017 21:00 UTC