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Lisa Takeuchi Cullen will receive the WGA East's Richard B. Jablow Award at the New York edition of 72nd annual Writers Guild Awards on February 1 at the Edison Ballroom. The award, which was established in 1978 to recognize devoted service to the guild, is named after the guild's first counsel, who helped found the…

Richard Price, the acclaimed screenwriter of The Color of Money and co-creator of HBO's limited series The Night Of, will be the recipient of the WGA East's Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Career Achievement. The award will be presented February 1 at the 72nd annual Writers Guild Awards at New York's Edison…

Paula Pell will receive the WGA East's Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence at the 72nd annual WGA Awards, which will be held February 1. The award will be presented by her longtime friend and former SNL colleague Amy Poehler. The honor will be bestowed in New York at the Edison Ballroom; the WGA Awards ceremonies…

The editorial, video, design and photo staffs of Hearst Magazines' 24 brands have unionized with the WGA East. The magazines include Esquire, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, Town & Country, Good Housekeeping, Popular Mechanics, Car & Driver, The Oprah Magazine, Seventeen, Elle, Woman's Day and many others. According to…

NBC News Digital is poised to join newsrooms across the country in being unionized by one of two unions vying to represent editorial staffs. The WGA East and the NewsGuild have made major inroads in recent years, organizing reporters and editors employed in a wide range of digital shops, major magazines and…

More than 75 writers on CBS and Showtime TV shows have signed a petition in support of a fair contract for their fellow writers employed on the newly unionized staff of CBSN, CBS News' streaming news network. The petition was delivered to management at ViacomCBS by WGA East executive director Lowell Peterson on the…

Beau Willimon, running unopposed, has been re-elected president of the WGA East. His slate of running mates, all of whom support the guild's five-month-long battle with the talent agencies, also were elected. They include The Deuce co-creator David Simon, an outspoken critic of the agencies' business practices, who…

Now that the WGA West election is over – with President David A. Goodman and all of his running mates sweeping to victory – the WGA East election is set to conclude on Thursday, with President Beau Willimon, running unopposed, and his Unity Slate poised to carry the day as well. And as with the election in the West…

Employees of the Committee to Protect Journalists have decided that they need union protection themselves. More than 90% of the 30-member staff have signed union cards asking to be represented by the WGA East, and CPJ's management has agreed voluntarily to recognize the guild as their staff's collective bargaining…

Writer-producers at Vox Entertainment, the nonfiction production arm of Vox Media, have unionized with the WGA East. The guild said a "clear majority" of the 49-member staff signed union cards, and management agreed voluntarily to recognize the guild as its collective bargaining representative. The unionization effort…

Beau Willimon will run unopposed for reelection as president of the WGA East. It's the second time the creator of the Americanized version of the British series House of Cards has run unopposed for president – the first time was when he was first elected in 2017. Only this time, he'll be running unopposed in the…

The editorial staffs of Vox Media's seven digital news outlets have voted unanimously to ratify their first-ever contract with the WGA East. The new three-year agreement covers some 350 writers and producers employed at Vox.com, Curbed, Eater, Polygon, Recode, SB Nation, and The Verge. Negotiations for the new pact…