TNG History

The Newspaper Guild is an international labor union with 34,000 members in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. Guild members work as reporters, photographers, copy editors, artists, clerical employees, librarians, advertising sales representatives, circulation district managers, computer programmers and in many other jobs at newspapers, magazines, wire services, radio, television stations and labor unions. The international office is in the Washington, D.C., area.

The Guild was founded in 1933 by Heywood Broun, then one of America’s foremost, highest-paid columnists. Dissatisfaction with their pay was the main reason that editorial workers, traditionally independent, came together. One year later, the first contract was signed in Philadelphia, providing a minimum pay scale for reporters. TNG staffed newspapers now include the: New York Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Boston Globe, Detroit Free-Press, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel and Washington Post. TNG also represents workers for the Associated Press – the largest news gathering wire source.