Most of its members are employees of the Associated Press, where the union represents reporters, editors, photographers, broadcast staff, payroll clerks and computer technicians.

[2] Staff of civic tech nonprofit Democracy Works and US-based staff of Oxford University Press joined the News Media Guild in 2021.

Organizing workers at AP was the subject of a case before the U.S. Supreme Court in Associated Press v. Labor Board, 301 U.S. 103 (1937)[5] which held that the First Amendment did not give media employers immunity from labor laws.

That case involved an editorial worker who edited and rewrote news copy.

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