Buffalo Newspaper Guild

Buffalo Newspaper Guild statement There’s no way around it: Friday’s news that The Buffalo News will no longer print a Monday edition and will shift to six-days-a-week print, effective Nov. 3, was difficult to hear. It is sad, but …

We have posted the statement here: buffaloguild.org/2025/10/03/b...

Here’s our statement on today’s @buffalonews.com announcement:

Tonight -- The Future of Local Journalism: A Community Conversation 7 p.m., Burchfield Penney Free and open to the public!

Tonight -- The Future of Local Journalism: A Community Conversation

7 p.m., Burchfield Penney

Free and open to the public!

A quick reminder about our event next week. It's important, and it's free and open to the public.

Flyer for Oct. 1 event at Burchfield Penney Art Center sponsored by the Buffalo Newspaper Guild. It's called The Future of Local Journalism: A Community Conversation. Panelists are Maki Becker, Jon Harris, Geoff Kelly, Charles Gilbert and Dave Greber. Elizabeth Licata will serve as moderator. The event is free and open to the public.

As the media landscape changes, what local journalists do every day continues to mean a lot to our community. What lies ahead for WNY will be the topic of our event next week, which is free and open to the public. Please join us.

Flyer for Oct. 1 event at Burchfield Penney "The Future of Local Journalism: A Community Conversation"

The mission of getting vital local news out to the WNY community faces growing obstacles. At our upcoming event, local journalists will discuss current challenges and the efforts to safeguard local journalism for the future. Please join our community conversation.

Photos: South Buffalo's Labor Day Parade Check out scenes from the annual Labor Day Parade in South Buffalo on Monday, Sept. 1, 2025.

Check out photos by member Joed Viera of yesterday's Labor Day Parade in South Buffalo
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Happy Labor Day! ✊📰

Across the country, NewsGuild members are winning strong contracts, fighting layoffs and building power on the job. Our victories this year prove what happens when journalists and media workers stand together.

Solidarity today and every day. 💪

Buffalo Newspaper Guild members march in Buffalo’s Labor Day Parade.

Happy Labor Day from the Guild! We just marched in the Buffalo Central Labor Council and the WNY Area Labor Federation, AFL-CIO 2025 Labor Day Parade.

In the land of #NeverRanch, how Buffalo acquired a taste for blue cheese Buffalonians have acquired a taste for blue cheese that the rest of the country doesn't understand. We explored blue cheese's local history, appeal, variations and why some still choose ranch.

Since the paywall is down on The Buffalo News website this weekend, here are some of the stories I’ve written over the last few months.

And if you want to read more after the weekend is over, support local journalism (woo!) and become a subscriber. buffalonews.com/life-enterta...

Read for free this weekend. Find all my stories here: buffalonews.com/users/profil...

Check out our hard-working members’ work for free this weekend on buffalonews.com

Ani DiFranco: Buffalo will 'always be my home' The folk singer said she “can’t wait” to see what a revitalized downtown and new immigrant populations have done for the city.

Paywall at buffalonews.com down now through rest of holiday weekend.

Ani DiFranco: Buffalo will 'always be my home' buffalonews.com/life-enterta...

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Each day, members of the Buffalo Newspaper Guild work tirelessly to report important stories in WNY. From lead contamination in local schools to the disputed history or the chicken wing, you can read it all for free this weekend on buffalonews.com.

The paywall at buffalonews.com is down today through the holiday weekend.

Access our members' important, daily work as local journalists for free now through Tuesday.

#ProtectLocalJournalism

Denise Abbott elected labor federation president Abbott was elected president of the Western New York Area Labor Federation, AFL-CIO.

Denise Abbott elected labor federation president buffalonews.com/news/local/b...

We can’t be neutral about attacks on journalists and the First Amendment. We stand proudly with @lapressclub.bsky.social

Media companies must stand up. Journalists have the right to do their jobs safely.

Not in a union? Reach out to us: organize@newsguild.org

Last night’s Protect Local Journalism event at the Buffalo History Museum was postponed after cartoonist Adam Zyglis and his family received violent threats.

We stand with Adam and with every journalist facing intimidation for doing their job.

EVENT POSTPONED- The Buffalo Newspaper Guild and The Buffalo History Museum have made the decision to postpone tonight’s scheduled program with Adam Zyglis, originally planned as part of the closing events for Ink & Insights: 20 Years of Adam Zyglis Cartoons. This decision follows credible threats related to Mr. Zyglis’ recent work and reflects our shared commitment to the safety and well-being of our guests, staff, and community. The decision to cancel comes in a moment of tension that underscores, rather than undermines, the very purpose of this exhibit. Ink & Insights was conceived to explore how editorial cartooning shapes—and is shaped by—civic discourse across presidencies, social movements, and defining events in Western New York’s history. As a Museum, we are committed to the work of historical literacy. We present stories and artifacts that help people make sense of their world—past and present—and we believe that context, complexity, and dialogue are essential to a healthy democracy. Editorial cartooning has long held a space within that dialogue. It distills big questions into bold images. It is also a form of expression protected by the First Amendment and tested in times of social and political unrest. We strongly condemn threats of violence against Adam Zyglis or any individual for exercising that right. These tactics have no place in civil society. We understand that this moment has provoked a range of strong and sometimes conflicting responses. As a Museum, we don’t have all the answers—but we remain committed to holding space for dialogue, especially when it’s difficult. We will work with the Guild to reschedule the program and will share details when available.

The Buffalo History Museum also released a statement

Buffalo History Museum event postponed after threats of violence made against Buffalo News editorial cartoonist and family 7.10.25 – The Buffalo Newspaper Guild and Buffalo History Museum are postponing a planned happy hour event this evening at the museum in light of serious concerns about public safety and direct threats that have warranted intervention by Buffalo police. The initial event, “Drawing Support for Local Journalism,” was planned more than a month ago to launch the Guild’s public “Protect Local Journalism” campaign at a museum exhibit highlighting the work of Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Adam Zyglis, before the exhibit’s closing. The free, public and nonpartisan event was intended to promote a message about the need to protect this community by safeguarding a strong, local free press amid pressures being faced by news organizations across the country and here in Western New York. However, public criticism of an editorial cartoon about Texas flooding published Tuesday in The Buffalo News, and malicious campaigning for individuals to protest and confront Zyglis at this event, has resulted in a series of death threats against Zyglis and a deluge of other direct threats to hurt him and his family.

We wholly condemn the individuals who have chosen to twist a positive, public event into an attempt to terrorize and silence Zyglis, spread fear among journalists and their supporters, and distort the mission of a free press. Zyglis is an opinion cartoonist who puts his name to every cartoon he draws. While his work is separate and independent from the work of newsroom reporters and editors at The Buffalo News, the Buffalo Newspaper Guild will not stand for physical threats of harm against him and his family. Those who stoop to such cowardly, disgraceful and anonymous acts must be held accountable. The threats made against Zyglis are being forwarded to law enforcement. Out of an abundance of caution and in the interests of public safety, however, we have decided to postpone the Buffalo History Museum happy hour event. It will be rescheduled. We thank the museum leadership and staff for graciously hosting this event and enduring the needless inconvenience recent events have placed upon them. The Buffalo News remains the largest news organization in Western New York. Its staff, including members of the Buffalo Newspaper Guild, are dedicated to providing comprehensive and accurate information to the people who live and work here every day. The spiteful campaign to attack and harm Zyglis represents only one more example of the challenges we face as a community and the need to better communicate and support our vital, public role. We encourage everyone to speak out against these hateful and illegal intimidation tactics and to support the Guild’s greater mission, found at www.ProtectLocalJournalism.com.

Please see our statement about tonight's event at the Buffalo History Museum. Statement also here: buffaloguild.org/wp-content/u...

If you'd like to support local journalists, here's a reminder about our event tomorrow. It's free to get in (cash bar) and open to the public.

Join us Thursday for Drawing Support for Local Journalism. It's free and open to the public.

You can check out Adam Zyglis' exhibit. The Guild is also
launching a campaign to raise awareness about the
need to protect strong, independent journalism in WNY. www.facebook.com/share/15jHWd...

Drawing Support for Local Journalism - Buffalo Rising The Buffalo Newspaper Guild hosts the Closing of Adam Zyglis’ Ink & Insight at the Buffalo History Museum. “Come and mingle with the hard-working journalists of the Buffalo Newspaper Guild as we celeb...

Please join us on Thursday.

Thanks to Buffalo Rising for the write up!
www.buffalorising.com/2025/07/draw... @adamzyglis.bsky.social

Compilation of Adam Zyglis' political cartoons in promotional image for July 10 event at Buffalo History Museum

Join us July 10 for “Drawing Support for Local Journalism” - as we mark the closing of @adamzyglis.bsky.social’s Ink & Insight.

Come and mingle with hard-working Guild journalists as we celebrate the closing of Zyglis' 20-year exhibition and launch our Support Local Journalism Community Campaign.

The Buffalo News is hiring a "trending/general assignment" reporter. It's a Guild position. jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/leeent...

Buffalo Newspaper Guild members march down Elmwood Avenue in the Buffalo Pride Parade

Happy Pride! We had a blast at today’s Buffalo Pride Parade.

Buffalo Newspaper Guild members march down Elmwood Avenue in 2024 Buffalo Pride Parade

See everyone Sunday at the Buffalo Pride Parade!

Every year, our members help with Buffalo Niagara Waterkeeper's spring waterfront cleanup. On Saturday morning, we volunteered along Scajaquada Creek in Black Rock.

The Guild has participated in the cleanup for many years and we do so in memory of the late Guild leader John “Jay” Bonfatti.

Buffalo News Publisher Tom Wiley to lead National Trust for Local News Tom Wiley will become CEO of the National Trust for Local News, a pioneering nonprofit national news cooperative centered around Maine, Colorado and Georgia.

Congratulations to Tom Wiley, the new CEO of the National Trust for Local News. The Guild thanks him for his five years of service as publisher of The Buffalo News and appreciated his leadership, energy and innovative style. buffalonews.com/news/local/b...

'Victory': Federal judges award rare injunction to striking Pittsburgh journalists, who are mulling what happens next - Pittsburgh Union Progress Newsroom workers on strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for more than 29 months solidified their place in labor history Monday when a federal court issued a rare injunction ordering the newspaper to...

Congratulations to the striking journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette! www.unionprogress.com/2025/03/25/f...