New Yorker Fact-Checkers Win Employee Status After Union Push

  • Condé Nast says it regularly reviews contingent worker roles
  • Magazine’s editorial workers unionized with NewsGuild in 2018

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Condé Nast’s New Yorker magazine will hire its subcontracted fact-checkers and editors as direct employees, a change that comes amid ongoing contract negotiations with the magazine’s newly unionized staff.

The 94-year-old title, which is known for literary and investigative journalism, is one of several Condé Nast publications that relies on subcontractors technically employed by a company called Global Employment Solutions.