On a Sunday that month, Brian Lam, the site’s founder, told everyone to clear. As a staff writer, you’ll be responsible for reviewing a variety of tech products and keeping our guides up to date, including working on new and existing coverage of smartphones, tablets, and related accessories. In October 2016, Wirecutter, a scrappy website that uses journalism to help people make purchases, was five years old. “Our labor continues to bring in record revenue for the Times and helped to grow Wirecutter by 10k subscribers in the past quarter.” The Wirecutter union is represented by the NewsGuild, which includes staffers at other outlets like BuzzFeed News and The Daily Beast. Wirecutter is seeking a staff writer to join one of its teams covering consumer technology products and services. Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports wages war on Insider over article about his sexual conduct. “Our staff works around the clock during the Black Friday shopping week, our busiest and most profitable time of year, putting in extra hours over the holiday to serve our readers,” the union wrote. New York Times’ Wirecutter writers plan strike around Black Friday. The strike could leave a financial mark on their parent company, as the boycott would come during the shopping frenzy of Black Friday, a historically lucrative day for Wirecutter. Unionized journalists at the New York Times Co.’s (NYSE: NYT) Wirecutter product review unit are planning to go on strike around Black Friday, which is the website’s peak traffic period. “If we have not reached a deal by Black Friday, do not cross the picket line,” the union wrote in a petition, urging would-be shoppers not to purchase holiday gifts through the Wirecutter website. Unionized staffers at The New York Times’ product review website Wirecutter took drastic measures on Tuesday, calling upon readers not to buy items through their outlet and pledging to strike over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend due to a contract statemate with the paper’s management.