After Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV, the historian Henry Louis Gates and his team traced the pope’s ancestry back 500 years. They discovered a complex family tree that includes noblemen, enslaved people, slaveholders, and freedom fighters. Take a look. https://trib.al/49aE3qc
The historian Henry Louis Gates and his team traced Pope Leo XIV’s ancestry back 500 years. Here are some of their discoveries.
Today, barely a month after devastating layoffs at Thrillist, Eater, and PS, and a wave of unannounced staff layoffs from around Vox Media, we learned that 18% of our union colleagues at Vox.com had been laid off. These layoffs impact staff both inside and outside of the newsroom as well as members of the Vox Media Podcast Network — and once again disproportionately affect women and journalists of color. We are again devastated to lose some of our most hard-working, experienced, and authoritative colleagues. These layoffs reflect a significant downsizing of our editorial team and a defanging of our editorial work, and come with little explanation about how they will impact our journalism moving forward. The Writers Guild of America East and Vox Media Union will do everything we can to help and support the colleagues who are leaving us, just as we have supported recent layoffs around the company. As we approach negotiations for our third collective bargaining agreement, we are redoubling our demand for a clear, transparent layoff process that reduces the anxiety and frustration caused by unexpected layoff announcements that seem to have no clear strategic purpose. We’re also fighting for expanded protections for workers and expanded severance for departing employees. Vox Media Union has been a vanguard of digital media at the Guild, and we realize that we are advocating not just for our own employees, but for this industry as a whole. We will continue to demand equitable treatment and respect for all journalists. Details on how you can support laid off workers at Vox Media will be forthcoming. Solidarity forever.
Devastated to be back again with a statement on today's layoffs at Vox.com. Please stay tuned for more details on how you can support our colleagues who lost their jobs today.
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Today, we were blindsided by news from Vox Media management that many of our colleagues at Thrillist and Eater would lose their jobs. We are devastated to lose writers and editors who produce invaluable work each and every day, and disgusted by Vox Media’s short-sighted decision making. As always, it is the workers who bear the brunt of management’s poor choices, and this close to the holidays, their callousness is especially galling. We are incredibly disappointed by management’s decision to decimate Thrillist, a vertical that it has invested almost nothing in since acquiring it from Group Nine. As we have made clear to management with our demand for One Union, One Contract, the WGAE-Vox Media Union views our colleagues at Thrillist as members of our union, and we will make sure that they are made whole in light of management’s decision to essentially shutter this beloved publication. Many of those impacted by today’s layoffs work on Eater’s Cities team, a group of powerhouse journalists who produce some of the most impactful local journalism in the country. Their work has always differentiated Eater and built it into the country’s most prominent food website, and management’s treatment of these workers is both irresponsible and reflects a complete lack of understanding of the journalism that is needed in this moment. We need more boots on the ground doing this essential work, not fewer. As always, the Guild will continue to demand that members are treated fairly in the aftermath of layoffs. As we approach the upcoming negotiations for our third collective bargaining agreement, we want to make abundantly clear to management that the status quo of constant, cyclical layoffs will not continue. We will fight like hell to ensure that our industry has a future, no matter how many times those in charge attempt to run it into the ground. Details on how you can support laid off workers at Vox Media will be forthcoming. Solidarity forever.
Hello Bluesky. Sucks that this is our first post. A statement from the Vox Media Union and @wgaeast.bsky.social on today's layoffs. Please stay tuned for more details on how you can support our colleagues who were impacted today.
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My first-ever post on this app is dedicated to telling you how inspired I am by our newsroom for publishing this year’s Future Perfect 50 list, an annual celebration of the people building a better tomorrow.
Not fluff. Real change. Progress is possible. ✨
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