{"id":610936,"date":"2021-08-04T12:51:29","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T16:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=610936"},"modified":"2021-08-04T12:51:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T16:51:32","slug":"politico-staffers-pursue-unionization-in-response-to-ben-shapiros-playbook-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/politico-staffers-pursue-unionization-in-response-to-ben-shapiros-playbook-column\/","title":{"rendered":"Politico Staffers Pursue Unionization In Response To Ben Shapiro\u2019s Playbook Column"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolitico-staffers-pursue-unionization-in-response-to-ben-shapiros-playbook-column%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=610936&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Ben-Shapiro.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Politico staffers are actively attempting to unionize in response to the outlet\u2019s decision to publish a guest column by The Daily Wire\u2019s Ben Shapiro.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/politico-newsroom-union-organizing-e6f9b630-05d6-4444-8353-99808abd6818.html\"><span>Axios<\/span><\/a><span>, Politico staffers are attempting to unionize with the NewsGuild in a move that could be a \u201cmajor win\u201d for newsroom labor groups. Politico is one of the largest newsrooms in the nation to resist unionization efforts in the past.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Internal sources said that Politico staffers sought union support after an internal uproar over Shapiro guest hosting the organization\u2019s premier email newsletter, Politico Playbook. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In January, Politico asked Shapiro to guest edit an edition of Playbook. Shortly after the morning email hit inboxes, many leftists \u2014 including some Politico staffers \u2014 had online meltdowns over the mere idea of Shapiro gaining access to the outlet\u2019s audience.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Politico reporters took to internal Slack channels to express their disbelief that the outlet had published Shapiro\u2019s words.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c[Publishing Shapiro\u2019s column] has clearly generated a wave of negative attention, and I fear it\u2019s already overshadowing a lot of great work being done by journalists across this newsroom,\u201d one staffer wrote.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is especially confusing given the newsroom\u2019s welcome efforts over the last year to cover issues related to race in a more intentional, elevated, thoughtful way,\u201d another opined.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianstelter\/status\/1349803629927145481\"><span>CNN<\/span><\/a><span>\u2019s Brian Stelter, Politico convened a newsroom conference call to discuss the matter.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Despite the internal uproar, Politico\u2019s top editor Matt Kaminski <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/politico-defends-publishing-shapiro-column-after-intense-leftist-backlash\"><span>released a statement<\/span><\/a><span> defending the outlet\u2019s decision to publish Shapiro.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe published a piece by a very prominent writer, provocateur, and podcaster. We stand by every word in there, it was very closely edited,\u201d Kaminski said. \u201cMischief making has always been a part of <\/span><i><span>Politico\u2019s <\/span><\/i><span>secret sauce. We were an upstart. Some of that sensibility is always going to be a part of this publication.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe have taken great care to assemble a roster of guest authors who are prominent thinkers and writers and represented a range of perspectives,\u201d Kaminski continued. \u201cWhat sets Politico apart in this intense political and media moment is that we rise above partisanship and ideological warfare even as many seek to drag us into it. It\u2019s a core value of the publication that is unchangeable and that above all protects our ability to do independent journalism. It is a part of our mission.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The infighting between top editors and left-wing staffers has allegedly sparked the desire for unionization.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Politico spokesperson Brad Dayspring told Axios that publisher Robert Allbritton \u201cunderstands that the decision to form a union is the choice of the newsroom employees who would be impacted by it, and POLITICO would respect the process and the majority decision of those employees.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Union organizers have been hosting information sessions with editorial staff and plan to present the union announcements to Politico management in the coming weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Related: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ben-shapiro-responds-to-over-100-politico-staffers-irate-over-one-column-you-fragile-little-babies\"><b>Ben Shapiro Response To Over 100 Politico Staffers \u2018Irate\u2019 Over One Column: \u2018You Fragile Little Babies\u2019<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico staffers are actively attempting to unionize in response to the outlet\u2019s decision to publish a guest column by The Daily Wire\u2019s Ben Shapiro.\u00a0According to Axios, Politico staffers are attempting &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}