TY - BOOK ID - 67300181 TI - New media unions : organizing digital journalists AU - Cohen, Nicole S. AU - de Peuter, Greig PY - 2020 SN - 9781138327115 9780429449451 0429449453 9780429830716 0429830718 9780429830723 0429830726 9780429830730 0429830734 PB - London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group DB - UniCat KW - Journalism KW - Employers and workers organisations KW - United States KW - Journalists KW - Collective bargaining KW - Labor unions KW - Bargaining KW - Labor negotiations KW - Industrial relations KW - Negotiation in business KW - Columnists KW - Commentators KW - Authors KW - Organizing KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:67300181 AB - "Investigating the wave of unionization that has seen over 60 digital and legacy media outlets unionize since 2015, this book explores how a flash of organizing by digital-first journalists has become a full-blown movement to unionize journalism, particularly in the United States. Through in-depth interviews with journalists and organizers, New Media Unions maps the process of labor organizing, foregrounding journalists' voices and documenting a historic and ongoing moment in the digital media industry. Cohen and de Peuter examine what motivates union drives, then follow journalists through the making of a union from scratch. They explore how journalists strategically self-organize, apply their communication skills to alternative ends, generate affective bonds of solidarity, and build power to confront anti-union campaigns and bargain first contracts, winning significant gains and drafting a new labor code for journalism in a digital age. This book demonstrates that if journalism is to have a future, it must be organized. New Media Unions provides a counter-perspective on an industry in flux, whose protagonists-young journalists facing precarious futures-are using collective organizing to articulate a bottom-up vision for journalism's future. This is a valuable resource for academics and researchers interested in political economy, journalism studies, and labor studies"-- ER -