Digital Projects
Organizing Digital Media
Since 2015, well over 100 media outlets have unionized. Thousands of media workers have taken collective action to improve their working conditions.
They are starting unions to win fairness, dignity, and a stronger voice at work.
This video shows what’s behind the organizing wave in digital media, how workers organized their unions, and what they won by unionizing.
Digital Media Unionization Timeline
At a moment of tremendous flux in journalism, unions are trending in newsrooms. In conjunction with the publication of our book New Media Unions: Organizing Digital Journalists, we have produced a timeline of the ongoing movement to unionize journalism, particularly in the United States.
Click here to access the Digital Media Unionization Timeline. Illustration created by Erin McPhee.