Jordan Laird

(she/her) @DispatchAlerts government & politics reporter, @DispatchGuild chair 📰 mail: [email protected] ✉️

[NewsGuild of New York @nyguild]

TAKING LEGAL ACTION: The @nytimes is using AI technology to monitor and surveil the performance of our @NYTGuildTech members in violation of their collective bargaining agreement. More here...
https://t.co/GJNtZljMpx ..

[Jordan Laird @LairdWrites]

@cbustruth @DispatchAlerts @MayorGinther Hello, the area median income scales with family size. 60% AMI for a family of four is $66k

Adding a lot of area median income numbers to a story can bog it down. He listed a lot of professions too and I didn’t fit everything in.

Plus, preschool teachers can make even less.

[ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild]

Support ProPublica Guild members by telling ProPublica’s Board Chairman Sagan it’s the board’s responsibility to direct management to agree to a fair contract now!
https://t.co/8WhtK0ZtET

[NewsGuild of New York @nyguild]

HUGE WIN ON AI: Our @timemagunion ratified a new contract this week that includes "no layoffs due to AI" as well as higher wage floors, raises and more. More here.... https://t.co/6z3eNBZ987

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

I am among the McClatchy journalists withholding my byline from AI-generated content. I cover sensitive stories that should never be repackaged or altered in any way by artificial intelligence. Whether the story is about sexual abuse or immigrants caged at Alligator Alcatraz, our journalists take great care to ensure that their material is accurate, fair and conveys invaluable aspects of humanity that AI simply can't do.

[Jordan Laird @LairdWrites]

@mojotil @DispatchAlerts I stand by my balanced reporting on this topic since I first broke the news of the ask for public money.

Have a good weekend, Joe.

[Jordan Laird @LairdWrites]

@mojotil @DispatchAlerts Joe, I never know if I should respond here. You have my contact.

What the mayor and CP have to say is newsworthy and people can draw their own conclusions. The Dispatch has written a dozen+ articles on this and covered the opponents’ side repeatedly.

[Columbus Dispatch @DispatchAlerts]

Some Columbus residents say they're priced out of Kilbourne soccer fields https://t.co/aYIkkrqDw9

[ProPublica Guild @propublicaguild]

1/ After 28 months of bargaining our first contract, @propublica management continues to take unacceptable positions on the issue of artificial intelligence.

[Jessie Balmert @jbalmert]

US Rep. Mike Carey's GOP primary challenger booted from race, SCOTUS appeal filed https://t.co/vQFZ0SNvtB via @LairdWrites

[Jordan Laird @LairdWrites]

@cbustruth @DispatchAlerts @MayorGinther @ColumbusPolice Hello, There’s a reason I attribute the assertion to Ginther. I haven’t independently verified it. This policy IS interesting. I’ll take a look.

[Jordan Laird @LairdWrites]

Columbus police may not work with ICE, but the Franklin County jails do.

The county jails are proactively calling ICE about every immigrant, including naturalized citizens.

Read my investigation.

https://t.co/aw8kj88H0j

[Jordan Laird @LairdWrites]

My first clue this is a scam? We don’t have a DMV in Ohio. We have a BMV.

[Jessie Balmert @jbalmert]

Haslams pitch new NWSL facility on site of Columbus city park https://t.co/ei7OX1JIEG via @LairdWrites

[Jordan Laird @LairdWrites]

Go Fort Worth reporters! Don’t listen to their nonsense and vote guild. ❤️😊 Supporting you from Columbus, Ohio!

[Fort Worth Reporters Guild @fwrguild]

Today, the Fort Worth Report’s usual planning meeting was replaced with an unannounced, closed-door, hour-long captive-audience meeting between staff, interns, and a “labor relations educator” named Elizabeth Hernandez, whom we’ve never met. Management and editors left the room.

[Jordan Laird @LairdWrites]

@mojotil

[Jordan Laird @LairdWrites]

@mojotil @DispatchAlerts

[Jordan Laird @LairdWrites]

Columbus settles after probe finds bias in police stop of Black man

Dept Public Safety told council the officers were disciplined so I asked police about it this morning.

The discipline was verbal counseling.

https://t.co/uSslT7ybZK

[Jordan Laird @LairdWrites]

Wish me luck getting off my unplowed residential street to make it to the mayor’s press conference on snow removal! ❄️

[RC_NewsGuild @RCNewsguild]

A solidarity message from the Record-Courier News Guild to our Newark siblings in the @dispatchguild :

Small shop. Small staff. Small salary. We at USA TODAY Co.'s smallest newspapers know that story all too well.