New York Times tech staff strikes, threatening Election Day coverage
New York Times technology staffers went on strike Monday morning just ahead of Election Day, threatening to disrupt the paper’s coverage as the 2024 presidential race comes to a close. If the strikes persists through tomorrow, it will be the first to coincide with a presidential election in 60 years, according to the union.
Hugh Hewitt storms off live show with liberal colleagues and quits Washington Post: 'Most unfair election ad'Beloved veteran TV news anchor dead at 51: 'He was simply the best'The union asked readers to “honor the digital picket line” and not play popular Times games like Wordle or use the Times’ cooking app, according to the Journal.
More than 400 of the guild’s members are engineers — stoking concerns that the strike could disrupt important Election Day coverage across the Times’ news site. Without its tech staffers, the company could struggle to fix bugs it encounters on Tuesday and fail to update content across some of its specialized election coverage tools.
The Times’ tech workers are some of the highest-paid employees at the company, earning a yearly salary of $190,000 on average — $40,000 more on average than journalists in the Times Guild, according to the New York Times.
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