Editorial Staff at the award-winning Non-Profit News Outlet EdSource have gone public with their efforts to join the Pacific Media Workers Guild, a Local of The NewsGuild-Communications Workers of America (TNG-CWA). These Journalists - who cover education policy and trends in the State of California - cite the goal of preserving EdSource’s mission and ethics as a core motivator for organizing. In an era where public education is facing increasing funding attacks and politically motivated content restrictions, Workers are seeking voluntary recognition so they can continue producing their important work. “Modern American journalism and the freedoms that enable it have never faced the existential threats they face now,” said Thomas Peele, EdSource’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Investigative Reporter. “It is time for Journalists to unite and organize to protect their Constitutional mandate to independently report on institutions and power. Joining The NewsGuild only strengthens EdSource’s ability to serve the public by aggressively reporting on education in California.”

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