Press Play with Madeleine Brand
What's at stake if writers walk off the job this year?
Writers in Hollywood just finished voting on whether they should strike. The vote is expected to be in favor of a strike. But that doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll walk off the job. We get the details. We also find out what happened with the strike 10 years ago, and how it changed the industry.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readWriters in Hollywood just finished voting on whether they should strike. The vote is expected to be in favor of a strike. But that doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll walk off the job. We get the details. We also find out what happened with the strike 10 years ago, and how it changed the industry.
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Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Anna Scott
Former KCRW Housing and Homelessness Reporter
Jolie Myers
Managing Producer, 'Press Play'
Jonathan Handel
contributing writer at Puck News and an entertainment labor lawyer
Kevin Klowden
economist, executive director, Milken Institute’s finance department
The full episode
1 of 5What's at stake if Hollywood writers strike?- 0:00What's at stake if writers walk off the job this year?You’re reading this
- 12:23Border wall becomes sticking point in fight over government funding
- 20:02What's next for Barack Obama?
- 26:45'The Idiot:' A story of first love in college during the '90s
- 41:36Emmanuel Macron, who's never held political office, heads to runoff for French presidency