{"id":337655,"date":"2026-09-04T04:06:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T04:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337655\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T04:06:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T04:06:44","slug":"new-york-times-and-the-athletic-workers-demand-company-scrap-kalshi-deal-the-newsguild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/337655\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal | The NewsGuild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"840\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/NYT-rally.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Unionized staff at the New York Times protest in front of the company's offices in NYC.\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a unanimous vote, the Times Guild Unit Council and The Athletic\u2019s contract action team approved the following statement:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As unionized workers at The New York Times, we are deeply concerned by the company\u2019s potential deal for The Athletic to partner with Kalshi, a company whose prediction markets have been described by New York officials in our reporting as an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/31\/nyregion\/kalshi-ny-lawsuit-gambling.html?searchResultPosition=5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cillegal operation.<\/a>\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any partnership between Kalshi and The Athletic would threaten our journalistic independence across the company. Despite management\u2019s claim that The Athletic and The New York Times are separate business entities, the journalism and the work are intertwined, as any reader can see.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prediction markets such as Kalshi, which allow users to place bets on real-world events, pose as reliable sources of data but operate without the accountability of independent,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/20\/technology\/polymarket-social-feeds-falsehoods.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fact-based reporting<\/a>.\u00a0An investigation by New York\u2019s attorney general found that Kalshi\u2019s prediction market platform is an \u201cillegal, unlicensed gambling operation\u201d that exposes users to \u201cserious personal and financial risk.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On a fundamental level, a partnership more extensive than the purchase of advertising space \u2014 and that might integrate this product into The Athletic\u2019s journalism \u2014 could cause readers to question our independence when we report on prediction markets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A partnership between The Times (for The Athletic) and Kalshi would also provide validation that their prediction market data should be taken seriously as an indicator of the future. Facts prove otherwise.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger has said that journalistic independence is the \u201ccore value\u201d that \u201canswers the question of why we\u2019re deserving of the public trust.\u201d We call on the company to live up to that commitment and abandon this deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a unanimous vote, the Times Guild Unit Council and The Athletic\u2019s contract action team approved the following&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-337655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}