NLRB rejects Dow Jones review request

The National Labor Relations Board announced Tuesday it has rejected a petition by Dow Jones & Co. to review the NLRB decision that made photo editors and lead photo editors at The Wall Street Journal eligible for IAPE representation.

This final determination by the board follows a Sept. 8, 2023, unanimous vote by photo editors to join IAPE, the union that represents journalists at The Journal, believed to be a fitting conclusion after their Sept. 9, 2022, petition to form a union.

NLRB said the company’s request for an appeal raised “no substantial issues warranting review.”

Photo editors and lead photo editors have been recognized as IAPE-represented employees since last year, and IAPE and Dow Jones agreed to remove an exclusion for photo editors from the new 2023-27 contract.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.