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PEN Guild

@pen-guild.bsky.social

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The labor union representing POLITICO and E&E News. Ink-stained wretches of the world, unite!

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PEN Guild @pen-guild.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy Labor Day from PEN Guild. Check out our new avatar 👀

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PEN Guild @pen-guild.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

ICYMI: the groundbreaking AI provisions of our first contract — and the actions our members took to enforce them —are featured in this @vanityfair.com story www.vanityfair.com/story/inside...

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PEN Guild @pen-guild.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Months after telling staff that the E&E News brand was not going away, POLITICO is shuttering six publications. A statement from PEN Guild's leadership: This is unacceptable.

On January 29, as we were discussing buyouts for the energy and environment teams, Joe Schatz told PEN Guild union leaders “The brands and the publications are not going away. We are looking to sharpen their missions.”

Today, he told us that E&E News as we know it is gone. Energywire, Climatewire, Greenwire, E&E News PM, E&E News Daily, PowerSwitch--six publications are being killed this summer.

This is information that management should have had, and should have told us, while our colleagues were making the decision about taking a buyout earlier this year. PEN Guild’s Labor Management Committee has questioned POLITICO monthly since January--including Jonathan Greenberger himself--about the vision for the newly combined energy and environment teams. At no point was sunsetting the E&E News publications ever mentioned--not even at our most recent meeting on Thursday, June 4. And yet somehow Semafor had the exclusive at 9:17 a.m. today.

This is the second time management has lied to employees in six months--the first being when John Harris said in December there would be no layoffs at the company, only to lay off some managers a month later.

Management says that none of us should be shocked, that change is part of the news business, that they did not lie and that they only finalized this new plan last week. And yet the question remains why such ground-shattering, publication-killing plans were not part of the “new vision” management announced in January? Why were our subscribers only surveyed in May?

This is not leadership. This is unacceptable.

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PEN Guild @pen-guild.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

A neutral arbiter agrees: @politico.com violated our contract and its own journalistic standards when it deployed AI. Our readers deserve news, not slop! wbng.org/2025/12/01/p...

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PEN Guild @pen-guild.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

We stand together with InsiderUnion and BIUK_Union for journalistic integrity and job security. Join us in telling @axelspringer.bsky.social NO SLOP IN OUR SHOP!

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PEN Guild @pen-guild.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

TODAY: PEN Guild heads to arbitration over POLITICO’s contract-breaking use of AI. This fight could set the standard for how AI is used in newsrooms across the country. ✍️ Sign our petition and help us go into arbitration with full support: bit.ly/PENGuild

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PEN Guild @pen-guild.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

We’re taking @politico.com to arbitration this week for its unethical use of AI and we’re asking for your support! bit.ly/PENGuild

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PEN Guild @pen-guild.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

We’re taking @politico.com to arbitration this week for its unethical use of AI and we’re asking for your support! bit.ly/PENGuild

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PEN Guild @pen-guild.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

We mean, c'mon, what are we doing here @politico.com ?

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