Abstract
ABSTRACT Workers in the United States are organizing their workplaces in record numbers. Due to budget cuts, corporate takeovers, and mass layoffs, many journalists are doing the same, hoping that unions can stem the collapse of the news industry. From small town five-person publications to large metro newspapers, news workers are organizing in solidarity with autoworkers, baristas, and Amazon warehouse workers, joining their picket lines and collaborating across industries to demand better working conditions and wages. Relying on 24 in-depth interviews with women journalists in the US who have participated in unionization campaigns, this study investigates how union organizing affects journalists’ work routines, professional identities, and relationships with the public. The study demonstrates how workplace organizing among journalists complicates longstanding professional norms, decenters news production away from elites and the powerful, and has the potential to promote solidarity within and across journalism cultures.
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