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There's no such thing as a 'union boss'—what labor reporters get wrong
The recent surge in labor militancy has brought fresh focus to the workers' struggle in media—but is labor's big moment a passing fad in the content cycle, or can it be sustained? The answer lies in the capacity for labor journalism and media to rise to the occasion. What's it really like being a labor reporter? What does it take to be a good one? What are the common misconceptions about unions and the labor struggle that reporters have to be cognizant of? TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez moderates "No Such Thing as a Union Boss: and other things the media gets wrong about labor", a…
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