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New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal


With a unanimous vote, the Times Guild Unit Council and The Athletic’s contract action team approved the following statement: As unionized workers at The New York Times, we are deeply concerned by the company’s potential deal for The Athletic to partner with Kalshi, a company whose prediction markets have been described by New York officials in our reporting as an “illegal operation.” Any partnership between Kalshi and The Athletic would threaten our journalistic independence across the company. Despite management’s claim that The Athletic and The New York Times are separate business entities, the journalism and the work are intertwined, as any reader can see.

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