🦅THE L.A. TIMES GUILD IS WALKING OUT🦅 We are calling for a one-day walkout TOMORROW, Jan. 19, in protest of management's proposal to cut staff and multiple unfair labor practices. docs.google.com/document/d/1gJ…

WAMU management and American University, which owns our license, has let us and you — our listeners, readers, and members — down. They have failed to steward the service we all rely on. We know the journalism industry is struggling, but poor leadership has led us to this moment.

Because some of you asked, you can donate funds to impacted WeMakeWAMU is a union WAMU 88.5 DCist staff. Our major gifts officer is collecting donations on Venmo ✊🏾: @ Sarah-Cumbie

We are devastated to hear about the decision to layoff 15 of our friends at WeMakeWAMU is a union and close our sister site DCist. Management has limited access to the site, which we hope is reversed to ensure their vital public service is memorialized.

The Long Beach Post staff are forming a union! We are the Long Beach Media Guild lbmguild.org

If you want to know why the Long Beach Post and Long Beach Business Journal won’t contain any original content tomorrow this is an important thread to read. Support us by signing our petition and help keep our local paper local.

New petition link just dropped 👇

We stand with Long Beach Media Guild. It's profoundly dissapointing to see management decide to decimate the newsroom. There are THREE reporters left. This needs to be reveresed — we call on Melissa Evans to voluntarily recognize the Guild. ❌DON'T cross the click-it line ❌

💵 Rent’s due! Help laid off and striking workers cover expenses while they fight for local journalism in Long Beach. Join us this Thursday at The Hawk for a fundraiser benefiting the LBMG Relief Fund!

We stand in solidarity with our colleagues at student newspapers doing vital reporting in challenging circumstances this week. We are especially alarmed by the attack on student journalists with the Daily Bruin. Journalists must be able to work without fear of violence.

On this World Press Freedom Day, we honor the nearly 100 journalists who have been killed covering the war in Gaza as well as those injured and missing. x.com/pressfreedom/s…

The news is out to members: LAist will be offering buyouts to staff. It may not be enough to prevent layoffs. There will be plenty of work happening over the next few weeks with our union, but I ask that if you love LAist, consider donating: support.laist.com

We are heartbroken by this and stand in solidarity with our colleagues We Make LAist (formerly KPCC). This follows layoffs at public media shops across the U.S. and comes less than a year after LAist eliminated 21 roles in a "restructuring." Please support their work however you can.

LAist announced layoffs this week & began notifying employees who will be let go today. We aren’t sure yet how many union members will be affected. But we are already losing 11 unit members and 10 more members of our staff to voluntary buy-outs. We’ll have more to say soon.

As a steward at LAist, I’m incredibly disappointed to share that we’re losing valuable colleagues today.

I was one of the people laid off from LAist yesterday. I didn’t take the buyout bc I was excited about some of the things I had in the works. I’m sad I won’t get to finish them, but I’m really proud of the work I did there and grateful for my colleagues and all I learned.