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What Are the Odds SAG-AFTRA Members Won't Ratify This Contract?

Netflix & The Ankler Invite You: Special FYC Event

WGA Threatens to Sue Amazon Studios: Check Out Our Latest Breaking Story

So Where Are We Exactly on AI and Streaming Residuals?

As Actors Strike Ends, Here's What We Know About the New Contract

No Deal (Yet): After Day of Internal Talks, SAG-AFTRA Still Deliberating

Searching for Consensus, as SAG Weighs a Provocative Option

Studios Make ‘Last, Best and Final’ Offer to Actors Union

AI Proves Knotty But Deal Still Possible This Week

A New Hope: Optimism Builds for Actors Strike to End

No Deal Yet, But Talks Expected to Continue Friday

100 Days of the Actors Strike: What Now?

Amid Summer of Strikes, a 41.4 Percent Plunge in Production

A Standstill, and a Ticking Clock

In Conversation: James L. Brooks, Judy Blume & Kelly Fremon Craig

Studios Say Actors Guild Talks Suspended For Now

Today's Curious Email From the 'Teacher's Pet Union'

Business Affairs Exec: A Studio Negotiator Responds to the WGA Deal

A 'Messy' Post-Strike Environment: Welcome Back, Writers

SAG-AFTRA, Studios to Resume Talks on Friday

Actors, Studios Back at the Negotiating Table

'We Didn't Anticipate the Groundswell of Support'

Here's the New Writers Guild Contract

'It Feels Like a War Ended': Elated Writers Exhale As Strike Poised to End

WE'VE GOT A DEAL: Writers, Studios Reach Tentative Agreement

What a 'Best and Final' Offer Might Really Mean

Cautious Optimism Reigns at Bob's Big Boy Strikewatch

Writers Guild and Studios Met Today, Will Meet Tomorrow to Keep Negotiating

What Constitutes Writing on a Talk Show?

Why Mini-Rooms Are a 'Waste of Money,' According to One Emmy Winner

Talks Between the Studios and Writers Guild to Restart Soon

The Whisper Campaign Behind the Supposed Showrunner-Writers Guild Spat

Drew Brouhaha: Barrymore Talk Show Restarts Amid Strike

WGA Fri. Night Bomb Drop: Divide & Conquer?

When No News Isn't Good News

When Writers and Actors Are Accused of Cosplaying Labor Activists

From The Ankler: ‘So Bad, So Depressed, So Scared’— the Human Toll of Summer's Strike

Strike Hits Psychological Turning Point

'Everyone Is Just Running Out of Runway'

'You’ll Be Lucky If You’re Working By January 2024': Readers Share Their Stories

Is Your Year Really Looking This Bleak?

The Volunteers on a Mission to Protect Strikers From the Heat

'The Whole Year Is F---ed': A Striking Actor on What Lies Ahead

'Neither Nothing, Nor Nearly Enough': WGA Responds to Studios' Offer

The Great Backfiring: Did This Move Just Add Weeks to the Strike?

Here Are the Studios' Proposals to the Writers

From The Ankler: An Emmy-Winning Writer on How Trust Died in Hollywood — and How to Get it Back

'Existential Dread, But Make It Fashion': Meet the Writers Behind PicketFits

The Strike Businesses Providing Picket Fuel This Summer

WGA to Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund: Rethink Your Position With Studios

FTC Chair Lina Khan on the 'Red Flags' in Hollywood's Market Structure

No Deal (Yet): Writers, Studios Meet Again

Karen Bass: I Had 'Long Conversations' With AMPTP, WGA Over the Weekend

From The Ankler: Death Spiral of Hollywood Monopolies

Movement! WGA to Respond to Studio Counterproposals Next Week

Take Two: Writers Guild, Studios to Resume Talks Friday

The 100-Day War, Or Rather, the First 100 Days of War

Why This Is the 'Most Radical of All the Writers and Actors Strikes' in Hollywood History

Business Affairs Exec: How to Truly ‘Preserve the Writers' Room’

The Squeeze: Writers on 'S*** Money' and the New Gig Economy

WGA: 'No Agreement' With AMPTP After Meeting

About That Meeting to Talk About Meeting...

'Playbooks Die Hard': WGA Approaches Big Friday Meeting With Wariness

Writers to AMPTP: We'll Keep Walking 'Til You Start Talking

Universal Rally: Where the Sidewalk Scuffle Ends?

Interim Agreements: the Latest Hot-Button Issue

'Zero Residuals From Streaming': Stunt Performers Speak Out

Exclusive: WGA Warns Calif. Teacher Pension Fund on 'Risk' of Studio Stocks

'We’ve got a message for Mr. Iger': New York Mega-Rally Burns Bright

Confessions of a Business Affairs Exec

Q&A: Duncan Crabtree-Ireland on AI, Revenue Sharing and Stalled Talks

Tree-gate Frontlines: a Strike Captain Speaks

Netflix's Ted Sarandos, Union Son, Says He's 'Super Committed' to Ending the Strike

Great Divide: SAG vs. Studio Breakdown Points Made Public

Heat Is On: Actors, Writers Erupt Outside Hollywood Studios

Actors on Shrinking Seasons, Residuals and Leaving L.A.

SAG-AFTRA Ready to Strike Until 2024, Says Fran Drescher

'The Jig is Up': Emotions High as Actors Strike at Midnight

No Deal: The First Actors-Writers Double Strike Since 1960 Is Upon Us

Panic Mode: 'Feels Like the Floor is Falling Out'

Fran Under Fire for Fashion Show Trip as SAG-Studios Resume Talks

From The Ankler: Hollywood's Real Estate Romance is Over

Sources: SAG-AFTRA, Studios Still 'Far Apart' On Key Issues as Clock Ticks Down

From The Ankler: Peak Hustle on the Picket Line

No Double Strike (For Now): SAG-AFTRA, AMPTP Extend Contract Talks

No Actors Strike Likely Next Week?

Daily Digest Exclusive: Writer-Directors Launch Union Solidarity Coalition

Daily Digest: Let's Talk About Stocks, Baby

Daily Digest: All Eyes on Actors as SAG-AFTRA Deal Deadline Looms

Wknd Digest: SAG Pres Fran Drescher Says Studio Talks Are 'Extremely Productive'

Daily Digest: Taylor Sheridan Strikes a Nerve

Daily Digest: 'The AMPTP has declared war on Hollywood labor'

Daily Digest: (50) Days of Hot Labor Summer

Exclusive: An Apple TV+ Exec Talks Streaming, the Strike & Global Television

Daily Digest: Meet The Strippers Union Backing the Writers Strike

Daily Digest: International Writers Join Day of Solidarity

Daily Digest: Oscar vs. Organized Labor - the Forgotten History

Daily Digest: The Banff Onstage Smackdown

Wknd Digest: New Agency Cuts as Pain Sinks In

Daily Digest: Will Directors Vote 'Yes' on the Studio Deal?

Daily Digest: The Writers Have Completely Shut Down TV Production in L.A.

Daily Digest: Actors Poised to Make 'Hot Labor Summer' Even Hotter

Daily Digest: Apple's Rotten Day

Weekend Digest: AI's Impact as the DGA Cuts a Deal

Daily Digest: AMPTP ‘Too Busy to Talk to Us’

Daily Digest: Carey, Garner Feed Writers as Fave Studio Restaurants Take a Hit

Daily Digest: Ouch. Productions Sunk 62.8% Last Week

Daily Digest: An Actress on 'Three Things' That Are 'Non-Negotiable'

Weekend Digest: Momentum Builds for a 'Hot Labor Summer'

Daily Digest: A Multigenerational WGA Family on Strike

Daily Digest: What Is a Neutral Gate and How Do Picketers Flip It?

Daily Digest: Oof! 'Creators' Gather Outside WBD

Daily Digest: A Starry Rally at the Rock has Big Names... But Few Directors

Daily Digest: A Studio Exec Agrees... Mini-Rooms Suck

Sunday Roundup: Zaslav Faces 'Pay Your Writers' Chant at B.U.

Daily Digest: SAG-AFTRA Readers Write Me: 'Screw These Garbage People'

Daily Digest: Studio Opposition Mounts as SAG-AFTRA Jumps In

Daily Digest: WBD Upfront Picket Foiled By... NYC Construction

Daily Digest: Disney's Upfront Jedi Mind Trick

Daily Digest: Writers Upset NBCU Upfront as B-team Takes Stage

Daily Digest: Upfront Havoc is Coming

Daily Digest: Love on the Picket Lines

Daily Digest: Plight of the Modern Showrunner

Daily Digest: Violence at the Gates

Daily Digest: Spectators Start to Take Sides

Daily Digest: Why This Strike Feels So Different

Striking on May the 4th: ‘May the Force Be With the WGA’

Rushfield Day 3: Netflix Bears the Brunt at the Shrine

Josh Gondelman on the NYC Picket: 'The Rain Isn't Going to Deter Us'

Podcast Frenzy: The First 48 Hours (and Counting)

Rushfield Day 2: Now the Hard Part

Day One on the Picket: Battle of the Clever Signs!

WGA Lead Negotiator: ‘They Said They Had No More Moves to Make’

Point-by-Point: Where the WGA and AMPTP Got Stuck

WGA's Picket Lines Scheduled to Start at 1 PM

Into The Breach: WGA Calls for Strike to Begin Tomorrow

'Last-Day-of-School Energy' in the Writers Room

Week One of The Strike, 2007

The Madness Before the Deadline

Rushfield: The Writers' Bill of Rights

Rushfield: Who'll Blink First?

Jeremy Zimmer: I'm Siding With the WGA

Martini Shot: Force Majeure

🎧 Martini Shot: A Tale of Two Larrys

Rushfield: 19 Days to Go - Who Will Move this Industry Forward?

Rushfield: Streamers' Catch-22 in a Strike

Rushfield: 55 Days to the Abyss

Rushfield: 62 Days to the Abyss

Rushfield: 70 Days to the Abyss

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