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Front Office Sports

Two low-payroll clubs clinched first, giving the players' union an argument that a hard salary cap is not needed for competitive balance.

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Front Office Sports

The WNBA players' union called it deeply disappointing that the NBA left the group off a joint letter to state betting regulators.

Women's sport · Regulation · Labour

Front Office Sports

Allowed contract terms shorten by a year once the new collective bargaining agreement takes effect at midnight.

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Status

Staffers told Status the latest McClatchy layoffs, hitting the Charlotte Observer, Miami Herald and Sacramento Bee, were shockingly haphazard.

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Reuters

Big Ten wants a 24-team College Football Playoff, SEC wants 16, with a decision due by December 1.

College sport · Labour

Status

USA Today Co. signed a Palantir partnership to analyze and monetize user data while its newsrooms cover ICE, DHS and DoD, and its union wants answers.

Press freedom · Labour

Defector

Portland offered $120M in public arena money against a 20-year lease and union labor, and Tom Dundon's people called the city too crummy to expect it.

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Front Office Sports

The New York Times' own union demanded management abandon partnership talks with Kalshi.

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The Baltimore Banner

The Baltimore Banner documented how Scripps's anchorless news stream plays on WMAR.

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The Guardian

DHS has used an obscure summons provision to obtain records tied to journalists, nonprofits and unions without judicial approval.

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The Washington Post

Chloe Shapiro, a transgender veteran, became homeless after the military failed to release her severance.

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Status

An arbitrator ordered the Post to reinstate fired columnist Karen Attiah.

Press freedom · Labour

Status

Nearly a week after an arbitrator ordered the Post to rehire Karen Attiah with full back pay, the paper has said nothing and she has heard nothing.

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Status

ESPN is adding Pat McAfee to Monday Night Countdown and negotiating a licensing deal reportedly worth $60-65M, after layoffs left Bristol feeling like a 'ghost town'.

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The Athletic

Adam Kilgore reports NIL agents have no central governing body, no players union and little to no certification.

College sport · Labour

Business Insider

Oracle has drawn up plans for another round of layoffs this month, after shedding 21,000 people, 13% of its workforce, in FY2026.

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The Athletic

The WNBA players' union denounced hate, abuse and demonization of transgender people after backlash to Fever guard Sophie Cunningham's comments.

Women's sport · Labour

Puck

John Ourand got inside ESPN's post-layoffs town hall in Bristol.

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The Washington Post

Over a million migrants, mostly Haitian, lost temporary protected status, with mass layoffs following at airports, nursing homes and schools.

Aviation · Labour

Business Insider

Big Tech is warming to the voluntary buyout, a layoff instrument it resisted for two decades.

Private equity · Labour

Puck

John Ourand argues ESPN's layoffs expose a cost base that doesn't work at current revenue.

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Puck

Further reading from the day's section on legacy media shedding scale.

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The Athletic

Andrew Marchand writes that ESPN is still a destination but has not been a utopia for a long time, as layoffs cut Karl Ravech and others.

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