Wallender named investigative reporter at Bloomberg Law
Labor and employment reporter Andrew Wallender will be switching beats and will now be working as an investigative reporter at Bloomberg Law. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Wallender was at CBS News working as an intern. He has also served as a journalism program assistant at Georgetown University and as a design assistant at Berkley Center […]
Bloomberg Law hires Kullgren to cover labor
Ian Kullgren, a reporter on Politico’s employment and immigration team, has been hired by Bloomberg Law to cover labor. He will start next week. Before joining Politico, he was a reporter for The Oregonian in Portland, Ore., and was part of a team that covered a 41-day standoff with armed militants at the Malheur National […]
Lack of labor reporting hurts the economy and society
Two university professors write in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix that a lack of reporting about labor issues hurts society. Andrew Stevens and Charles Smith write, “There was a time when even local papers and television stations had sufficient resources to invest in robust newsrooms and beat reporting. Today, the Toronto Star’s Sara Mojtehedzadeh is one […]
Why the media need to start covering the labor story
University of Northern Iowa professor Christopher R. Martin writes for Nieman Reports about how the media needs to turn back to covering the labor beat. Martin writes, “The upscale focus of the news upset the status of labor unions and upended politics through the last third of the twentieth century and beyond. The mainstream news […]
How a decline in labor coverage has hurt the media
Steven Greenhouse, the former labor reporter at the New York Times, writes for the Columbia Journalism Review about how a decline in labor coverage has hurt trust in the media. Greenhouse writes, “A steelworker remarked that ‘the American worker has been put on the back burner’ by the media. Several workers said they wanted more […]
Coverage: UPS, union reach deal on new contract
A segment of United Parcel Services’ union members have reached a tentative agreement with the courier company for a new five-year contract. Brittany De Lea of FoxBusiness.com had the news: The new deal covers about 11,000 UPS freight employees represented by Teamsters. The company says deals have now been reached for both the freight and small […]
How labor coverage has merged with the tech beat
Noam Scheiber of The New York Times writes about how labor coverage has merged with the technology beat. Scheiber writes, “I moved from Washington to Chicago in 2016 because I thought it would improve my reporting on workers. I joked to bewildered colleagues and sources that covering labor from Washington was a bit like covering technology […]
ProPublica hires Yeung to cover labor issues
ProPublica announced Monday that it has hired reporter Bernice Yeung to cover labor-related issues, as one of multiple business reporters ProPublica is hiring. Yeung comes to ProPublica from Reveal, where her work examined the intersections of labor, violence against women, immigrant communities and public health. She was part of the Emmy-nominated “Rape in the Fields” […]
The importance of the labor beat
A post on Al Jazeera examines why the business news media no longer covers labor stories. The post states, “Yet, over the years, the US media has deserted workers and sought more upscale, affluent audiences. When labour issues are reported, they are often seen through the lens of business, leaving little opportunity for the US working class […]
Quartz launches future of work obsession
Business news site Quartz is now covering the future of work as one of its “obsessions,” or beats. Editor in chief Kevin Delaney writes, “To get a sense of how we’ll approach the future of work, you can look to some of our distinctive coverage on the issue to date. There’s the impact of AI and automation: […]
