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The editorial staff at digital news site Slate has unanimously ratified its second collective bargaining agreement with the WGA East. The new three-year contract, covering 56 staffers, will see salary minimums rise to $58,000 by 2024, up from the current minimum of $51,000. Slate won union recognition in January 2018…

Slate's Slow Burn podcast, which has covered subjects such as Watergate and Bill Clinton's impeachment, is one of the most successful documentary podcasts in the market. It will soon have its first spinoff, or offshoot. One Year will focus on a specific year in history and will look at all of the things that you…

With newsrooms across the country reeling from the loss of advertising revenue due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and vowing to become more racially sensitive and inclusive during the ongoing nationwide social justice movement, the WGA East and Slate have agreed to launch a work-share program and new editorial guidelines…

The editorial and podcast staff of Slate, the politics and news website, has ratified its first contract with the WGA East. The 51-member Slate staff is the latest of more than a dozen online news sites that have organized under the guild's umbrella, including Salon, HuffPost, Vice and ThinkProgress. "Slate's…

A petition signed by Tina Fey, Samantha Bee, Michelle Wolf, Paul Haggis and 300 WGA members was delivered today to the managements of both Slate and Thrillist, urging the news websites to bargain in good faith for a new contract covering their writers and editorial staffs. "As WGA members in scripted film and…

The editorial staff of Slate has voted to be represented by the WGA East – the latest in a growing list of online news organizations whose writers and editors have voted to unionize. Following the vote, the news outlet's management agreed to recognize the union as its staff's collective bargaining…

Slate has become the latest in a long line of digital media outlets whose editorial staffs have voted to unionize with the WGA East. The union said today that more than 90% of Slate's editorial staff have signed cards declaring that they want the guild to represent them in contract talks. Slate joins the Huffington…

Male-centric Grit and female-centric Escape networks will launch simultaneously at noon ET on August 18, with classic movies High Noon, and Body Heat, respectively. Owned and operated by Katz Broadcasting, the two networks are cleared in 50% of the country, with more distribution to be announced shortly, CEO Jonathan…