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WGA Adds First Web-Only Station News Writers

John Eggerton -- Multichannel News, 8/27/2010 4:54:06 PM

In a first for the Writers Guild of America East, the union has added Web-only content writers/producers to its roster of represented employees.

According to the union, the stations four Web-only news staffers at CBS' WBBM-TV Chicago voted Aug. 27 to join the guild.

WGAE has been actively reaching out to Web writers. "That is where we think a lot of news writers are transitioning," said spokeswoman Sherry Goldman. "As [stations] are moving more and more content online, those are targets we are definitely going after," she said.

Web-only writers currently aren't covered by guild contracts so WGAE has to organize, essentially shop-by-shop.

WGAE represents approximately 4,000 broadcast, cable, film, and digital media writers.

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