State of the Union
If the new SAG leadership doesn't rapidly start taking all the painful, but necessary steps to merge with AFTRA, we are fucked.
If the new SAG leadership doesn't rapidly start taking all the painful, but necessary steps to merge with AFTRA, we are fucked.
Roger Wolfson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
The groundwork for the writers' strike started with something the town rarely notices: a routine, biannual WGA election.
Michael Russnow | Posted 09.13.2008 | Entertainment
It's intriguing how the writers' strike rumor mill builds everybody up and then shoots him or her down.
Roger Wolfson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
By forcing Writers and Actors to accept a fraction of their rightful share of DVD sales twenty-odd years ago, the Companies saved over $10B. They stand to save that amount many times over.
AP | LIBBY QUAID | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Republican Mike Huckabee, a presidential candidate sounding a populist theme in Iowa, likely will be forced to cross a writers' picket line if he app...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Over at the Daily Nightly, BriWi takes a break from the news to post a mini-paean to Jon Stewart on this, his 45th birthday — which, alas, will ...
YouTube | dazue | Posted 03.28.2008 | Entertainment
Every strike needs a hip hop anthem. Written and performed by: Writer Boi Directed and Edited by: David Schlussel Shot by: Robert W. Swanson ...
Huffington Post | Patrick Waldo and Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Actors, writers, and politicians gathered in Washington Square Park to rally in support of the WGA strike -- and HuffPo's Patrick Waldo was there to capture it on video.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
We wrote yesterday noting, inter alia, that while new strike videos are still fun, after three weeks they're no longer quite as much of a novelty, and...
Jonathan Handel | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The AMPTP has created no YouTube videos of its own, opting instead for the old-media alternative of occasional paid advertising in the papers and trades.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
There's something innocent and pure, too, about the writers here: Sure, they're striking for money, but that's not why they write -- that they do for love.
AP | Jeremy Herron | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
CBS News writers authorized their union leaders to call a national strike, the Writers Guild of America said Monday, escalating a labor impasse. Abou...
Ad Age | Brian Steinberg | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The writers strike has media buyers growing cautious about the efficacy of TV advertising in the weeks ahead and in the first quarter of 2008 -- and m...
New York Post | Holly Sanders | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
The Hollywood writers' strike, which is bringing a premature end to the current TV season, now threatens to delay development of next fall's schedule...
Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
It's been noted on this site and on others that the writers' strike is at least producing some great material, as writers left with no creative outlet...
Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
I've just learned that David Letterman and his producers yesterday morning announced to his Late Show staff that they will be paid through the end of ...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Have you missed your Daily Show fix? Well then enjoy this, the latest creative effort by the striking TDS writers as they clearly can no longer keep t...
Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
The New York Sun's Josh Gerstein reports on Rudy Giuliani's trip to Southern California Tuesday when he was bombarded by media asking him his views on...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
Don't the studios wish they could monetize this! One week into the writers' strike and already there are hundreds of thousands of views of strike-related material online.
David Dean Bottrell | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics