Gimlet Media has become the first podcasting company to unionize with the WGA East. A majority of it 83 employees has agreed to sign union cards and called on management to recognize the guild as its collective bargaining rep.

Brooklyn-based Gimlet’s network includes Reply All, Crimetown, The Cut, The Nod, Homecoming…

The editorial staff at Gizmodo Media Group has ratified its second collective bargaining deal with the WGA East. The digital media outlet’s 169 members voted overwhelmingly to approve the new three-year contract, which is its first as part of Univision Communications’ Fusion Media Group.

Here are details of the deal:

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There were two big surprises on the film side of the 71st annual Writers Guild Awards, which were handed out tonight during simultaneous ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York. The respective winners of the marquee Original Screenplay and Adapted Screenplay prizes were movies that often have for the most part been…

The 71st annual Writers Guild Awards are being handed out tonight in simultaneous ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York. Deadline will be liveblogging the action here and updating the winners here as they are announced. Click on the link below for the full list of nominees.

Along with the hardware being handed out for…

The WGA East is blasting the FCC's proposed new rules that would allow dual ownership of TV stations in local markets, a decision that the guild says "would make it possible for media conglomerates to further nationalize local news."

"Further consolidation of local radio and television station ownership would rob local…

The WGA East, in its ongoing efforts to unionize digital newsrooms, has been recognized voluntarily by CBSN — an arm of CBS News — as the collective bargaining representative of the live-streaming news network's 55 writers, producers and graphic artists. CBSN became the first-24/7 live anchored digital streaming news…

After a seven-year battle, writer-producers at Peacock Productions finally have their first contract with the Comcast/NBCUniversal nonfiction TV production arm. The new pact, which covers 40 writer-producers, was ratified unanimously, and includes what the guild is calling a "landmark" agreement to establish a…

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 editorial…

Writers and producers at four Vice Media news outlets have voted overwhelmingly to ratify contracts negotiated on their behalf by the WGA East.

The new pacts, which cover some 200 staffers at Vice Editorial, Vice News, Viceland and Vice Digital, were approved by 98% of those who voted, the guild said. The new contracts…

Franklin Leonard, founder and CEO of the Black List, will receive the WGA East's Burkey Award, given in recognition of his contributions that have brought “honor and dignity to writers." The award will be presented at 71st annual Writers Guild Awards in New York on Feb. 17.

"Since founding the Black List, Franklin has…

That’s a real headline: The Onion has gone union. The creative staff at Onion Inc. overwhelmingly has ratified its first collective bargaining agreement with the WGA East. It covers 69 employees at the company’s numerous humor and cultural sites including The Onion, The A/V Club, The Takeout, Onion Labs and…

A dozen entertainment industry unions – most of which are affiliated with the AFL-CIO's Department for Professional Employees – have committed to taking joint action to combat sexual harassment in the workplace by sharing training resources, codes of conduct and best practices in order to strengthen their individual…