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A Pinch and a Punch: Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., Carl Bernstein, and A. G. Sulzberger attend Harper's Magazine Gala Celebrating 175 Years on November 13, 2025. (Photo by Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
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In tonight’s edition, we go inside The New York Times newsroom to find staffers frustrated with their union for not making more progress on key issues before their contract expired over the weekend.
Also tonight, The Telegraph makes a key stateside hire following a years-long saga about its ownership, New York Daily News staffers demand answers from their editor following brutal layoffs, a scene report from Caper’s launch party, and Semafor finds itself a summit not to die on.
Mentioned tonight: A.G. Sulzberger, Meredith Kopit Levien, Joe Kahn, Carolyn Ryan, Marc Lacey, Jim Luttell, Lord Rothermere, Hamish McKenzie, Tina Brown, Arthur MacMillan, Dovid Efune, Lionel Barber, Mathias Döpfner, Andrew Julien, Graydon Carter, Max Tcheyan, Dana Brown, Daniel Tsinis, Annie Armstrong, Emma Orlow, Emily Sundberg, Michael Grynbaum, Alex Vadukul, Brock Colyar, Lili Anolik, Nathaniel Brown, Danny Karel, Charlotte Klein, Orson Fry, Zack Christenson, Scoop Wasserstein, Kate Klobe, Eli Sussman, Max Baroni, Robert Wolf, James Harris, Anoop Pillarisetti, Margaret Rhodes, Carina Guiterman, Mitchell Jackson, Keith Edwards, Josh Code, Natalie Korach, Peter Rothpletz, River Donaghey, George Hahn, Tucker DeSaulnier, Janice Min, Richard Rushfield, Lynne Segall, Jen Laski, Sharon Waxman, Jess Testa, Matt Starr, Suzy Weiss, Michael Moynihan, Emily Kirkpatrick, Pierce Abernathy, Jenny Rosenstrach, Jessica DeFino, Henry Kravis, Ken Griffin, David Rubenstein, Penny Pritzker, Ben Smith, Justin Smith, Larry Ellison, David Ellison, Lachlan Murdoch, Greg Peters, Benj Edwards, Bari Weiss, Zohran Mamdani, Ken Fisher, Chris Quinn, Rebecca English, Tim Davie, Mark Thompson, Jay Hunt, Alex Mahon, Charlotte Moore, Kevin Bakhurs, Matt Brittin, Maxi Tani, Josh Simons, Roger Lynch, Radhika Jones, and more.
The Guilded Age
(Exclusive.) This week, the rank and file of The New York Times are attempting to deluge the inboxes of publisher A.G. Sulzberger, CEO Meredith Kopit Levien, Executive Editor Joe Kahn, and Managing Editors Carolyn Ryan and Marc Lacey in what the Times Guild has dubbed “pack the inbox”.
Members have been instructed to tell management that they deeply care about the five priorities that were laid out when they kicked off bargaining several weeks ago (wages, health cover, remote work, AI, and unionizing The Athletic).
It’s the first action from Guild members since The Gray Lady’s “ticking time bomb offer” expired on Saturday, when the current contract ran out. It has left both sides contemplating their next moves.
But inside the Times, some Guild members who spoke with Breaker are frustrated about the lack of progress on the key issue they care about …
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