With Walkout Looming, New York Times Management Prepares for a Nearly Empty Newsroom

Inside The New York Times, the top brass is bracing for a walkout. Last Friday, the Times Guild, which represents about 1,450 employees, alerted management that they planned to stop work for a full 24 hours on Thursday, December 8, if they did not have a contract by then. “We are all operating under the assumption that we are walking out on Thursday,” sports reporter and unit member Kevin Draper told me. The two sides are meeting again Tuesday, as planned, though management balked at the Guild’s request, in a letter to Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger and president and CEO… Read Full Article