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339 First US Newsroom Strike For AI Protections Staged by ProPublica's Journalists

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EditorDavid @ Slashdot · 04/11/2026 14:34 EDT

First US Newsroom Strike For AI Protections Staged by ProPublica's Journalists

It's the first time a major U.S. newsroom has gone on strike partly to demand protections from AI-related layoffs, according to a report from Nieman Lab.

They noted that one of the picketer's signs read "Thoughts not bots," :

On Wednesday, roughly 150 members of the Propublica Guild, one of the largest nonprofit newsroom unions in the country, went on a 24-hour strike. About two dozen Guild members picketed ProPublica's headquarters in New York City's Hudson Square neighborhood during working hours, as s

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