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    Press Play with Madeleine Brand

    After voting to unionize, what's next for the LA Times and its publisher?

    The LA Times newsroom overwhelmingly voted to unionize today. They are demanding that their publisher Ross Levinsohn resign after NPR reported incidents of sexual misconduct.

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    By Madeleine Brand • Jan 19, 2018 • 1 min read

    The LA Times newsroom overwhelmingly voted to unionize today. They are demanding that their publisher Ross Levinsohn resign after NPR reported incidents of sexual misconduct. We speak with the NPR reporter who broke the story and one of the leaders of the union effort at the Times.

    Ross Levinsohn on Press Play last year, coming into the job.

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      Madeleine Brand

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      NPR media correspondent and author of the book “Murdoch's World: The Last of the Old Media Empires”

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