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Dear friends and RSR readers: I must ask your kind forgiveness in my being absent for so long, but hope and trust you do understand that in addition to my currently working on three books and teaching classes at a local (Miami) fine and fully accredited university, I am involved with numerous local and statewide history projects and initiatives but want to assure you all that I will work diligently to improve my time performance. Miami’s 125th anniversary is coming up in July and I am pleased to share a piece which I re-wrote for a fellow who is doing a yeoman’s job in preparing for said ...

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Gimlet and Ringer unions detail their first historic contracts with Spotify Share this story Gimlet Media and The Ringer agreed on a three-year union employment contract with Spotify, marking a historic moment for both the tech giant and the podcasting industry. The contracts cover diversity at the company, salary bases, annual raises, and titles. It’s a big step — not just for unionization in podcasting, but also for the tech industry overall, which has been slow to take up unionization and faced union-busting tactics when they do. The Writers Guild of America, East, which represents G...

Spencer Platt/Getty Images The agreement provides minimum salaries, sets restrictions on the use of outside contractors in bargaining unit positions and provides a minimum 2 percent annual raise for covered employees. The Ringer and Gimlet Media unions have both ratified collective bargaining agreements with owner Spotify, the Writers Guild of America East announced Tuesday. The three-year agreements covering writers and producers were unanimously ratified by Gimlet Media's 48 bargaining unit members and The Ringer's 65 bargaining unit members, per the WGA East. The agreement provides a $57...

Conversations with Friends American media is not, and never has been, diverse. Every so often the industry releases reports to assess the precise proportions of its homogeneity. The latest came in February: Internal reviews at Condé Nast and Hearst found that, despite several well-publicized hires of nonwhite editors in management roles, the majority of new employees were white. A few weeks later, the New York Times published an internal report, eight months in the making, whose unilluminating conclusion was that, despite “meaningful efforts in recent years toward achieving greater divers...