Freelance Solidarity ProjectNYTLetter co-author Harron Walker talks with The Takeaway’s Melissa Harris-Perry about the New York Times and the climate of threat to trans people’s lives and health in the U.S.
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/takeaway/segments/new-york-times-trans-news
“The Times has spent the past seven weeks responding to our letter by making false claims, intimidating its employees and, most importantly, barely covering the legislative assault on trans people.”
— FSP’s Eric Thurm
“Instead of investigating this news, Times leadership has spent recent weeks combing through the 1,200 contributor signatories, as well as the 34,000 signatories who joined in solidarity, to find staffers to intimidate.”
A further open letter confronting the New York Times on its record covering trans people in the climate of anti-trans politics, addressed to publisher A.G. Sulzberger today.
https://nytletter.com/
“Now, nearly a quarter-century after Cartwright came out, the Times is once again a center of hostility toward a marginalized queer community. Once again, people inside and outside the paper are pleading with management to change. And once again, the Times is putting its barriers up. It is as though it has learned nothing from its own history.”
— Jack Mirkinson in The Nation.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/new-york-times-trans-coverage-gay-rights-history/
マリオ (Mario Menti)“We, members of the NewsGuild of New York, are coming together to address critical issues affecting trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming workers in our newsrooms.”
Beyond #NYTTransSolidarity: the #NYGuild extends the call for media worker solidarity on trans rights. Members can sign here: https://bit.ly/transnewsguild
#journalism #mediaWork #solidarity #trans #labor #union #NewsGuild
Join Members Of The NewsGuild of New York Organizing For Trans Rights
February 17, 2023 We, members of the NewsGuild of New York, are coming together to address critical issues affecting trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming workers in our newsrooms. We are concerned about bias in reporting on trans issues; inconsistent standards for reporting on these issues; and a lack of transgender, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming editorial staff. We are uniting to confront these issues across our newsrooms, including at The New York Times. Many of us—along with many members of the public—have observed the devastating influence of the anti-factual, biased coverage of transgender life from leading media organizations. Our goals as a group include building and sharing ethical reporting standards around trans issues, drawing on the work of the Trans Journalists Association; developing strong contract language that ensures trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming journalists are considered for staff positions and are supported in those jobs; and establishing these supports not only in editorial roles, but across newsrooms and media organizations, including for tech workers and in publishing. We are committed to working together as Guild members to ensure that our newsrooms are safe and equitable places for trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming people to work, and that the work we produce informs readers, viewers and listeners clearly, factually and humanely. We also emphasize that when we come together as Guild colleagues to engage in this work, it is concerted activity protected by the National Labor Relations Board. We invite you to sign up below to join us at our next meeting to further this conversation. In solidarity, Allegra Kirkland, Teen Vogue (shop steward, the Condé Union) Alma Avalle, Bon Appétit (bargaining committee, the Condé Union) Brittney McNamara, Teen Vogue Cody Corrall, BuzzFeed News (unit chair, executive committee member) Crispin Long, The New Yorker (shop steward, grievance committee) Dorian Barranco, Insider Union (shop steward) Emma LeGault, Insider Union (unit chair) Emma Specter, Vogue (shop steward, the Condé Union) Gaylord Fields, Condé Nast (edit unit chair, the Condé Union) Indigo Olivier, The New Republic (unit council) James Factora, Them Joan Yang, The New Republic Lexi McMenamin, Teen Vogue Lil Kalish, BuzzFeed News Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic (unit council, shop steward) Nozlee Samadzadeh, New York Times Tech Guild P. Claire Dodson, Teen Vogue (shop steward, the Condé Union) Quispe Lopez, Them William Antonelli, Insider Union (shop steward) Read more: Letter to The New York Times from a collective of New York Times contributors (February 15, 2023) Letter to The New York Times from GLAAD along with 100+ organizations and leaders “calling on the New York Times to improve their coverage of transgender people” (February 15, 2023) The Times’ response to the GLAAD statement from Charlie Stadtlander, the New York Times’ director of external communications (Nieman Lab coverage, February 15, 2023)
“The natural destination of poor editorial judgment is the court of law.”
An amicus brief in defense of Alabama legislation that would make providing certain gender-affirming care to a minor a felony cited three different New York Times articles.
Sign and share: http://nytletter.com
This week, NWU Freelance Solidarity Project members & other NYTimes contributors, 200+, published an open letter condemning the paper’s unethical coverage of trans and non-binary people.
Judges and lawyers cite inaccurate Times coverage in defense of law constructed to deny access to gender-affirming care and criminalize the work of providing it. The Times, in short, enables violence through its editorial failings.
We won’t stand for it.
Join us: https://nytletter.com