The union that represents editorial staffers at tech news site The Verge said it had reached a tentative three-year agreement after an overnight bargaining session.
Todd Spangler of Variety writes, “The tentative deal covers about 250 writers and other editorial workers represented by the Writers Guild of America East. Union members and the WGAE Council’s Online Media sector representatives will vote to ratify the contract in the coming days. The union said full details of the agreement will be released upon ratification.
“Union leadership said the top concerns for a new deal included proposals on pay, AI protections, benefits, and assurances for severance and layoff procedures. Vox Media, like many other media companies, has implemented multiple rounds of layoffs in recent years, most recently with a third wave of job cuts in January within a brief succession of weeks.
“Vox Media at one point had about 2,000 employees but that number has shrunk with the job cuts. In 2019 the company acquired New York Media, publisher of New York Magazine, in an all-stock deal designed to gain synergies of scale. Two years later, Vox Media merged with Group Nine Media, a digital media roll-up venture whose backers had included Discovery.”
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