Newsweek owners ‘muzzling’ journalists: Newspaper Guild

The Newspaper Guild has filed claims alleging the owners of Newsweek are “illegally muzzling” a handful of journalists who have be🔯en offered jobs by new ownerꦑ IBT Media.

Only about five employees of Newsweek/Daily Beast have been offered jobs to come over and work f൩or ওIBT, which announced in August that it was buying the title from Barry Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp.

The Guild said it asked the National Labor Rel🐼ations Board to investigaꦏte after it was alerted that the offer letters prohibited the employees from discussing their working conditions or criticizing their employer.

“The law gives all employees the right to discuss their pa𝔍y and other terms of employment with one another, even if it means being critical of their employer,” said Guild president William O’Meara.

A🌳 spokesman for IBT’s owners said they wꦕere reviewing the complaint.