Welcome freelancers…
You’ve found the online home of the Freelance Unit of California Media Workers Guild — a new kind of union for journalists and writers, and the first of its kind connected to a local office of The...
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We have a leader: Freelance unit elects first chair
At our November unit meeting, Guild Freelancers unanimously elected longtime reporter Rebecca Rosen Lum as our first unit chair. Rosen Lum, a San Francisco resident who formerly covered religion for...
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We Love Our Work: Documenting a cultural revolution
Once upon a time, not so many decades ago, a group of respected academics believed that LSD and other hallucinogens would revolutionize American society — and they set out to prove it. The fascinating...
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Guild launches forum for journalists covering OWS
A reporter is arrested covering Occupy Atlanta (LadyMorrigan). Media Workers Guild Covering the Occupation Movement can be hazardous. A growing number of reporters and photographers have been...
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Journalists—Myself Included—Swept Up in Mass Arrest at Occupy Oakland
By Gavin Aronsen| Mother Jones Police round up OO protesters: Spencer Mills (@OakFoSho) On Saturday, Occupy Oakland re-entered the national spotlight during a day-long effort to take over an empty...
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