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42 SAG-AFTRA | Fall/Winter 2025 | sagaftra.org Broadcast News Above, from left, Telemundo Chicago Weekend Reporter Jorge DeSantiago, NBC10/Telemundo62 Philadelphia Reporter Claudia Vargas, WBEZ Chicago Weekend Anchor Araceli Gómez-Aldana, WGN-TV Anchor Lourdes Duarte, and Vocalo/WBEZ Chicago Host & Producer and panel moderator Nudia Hernandez at the NAHJ conference. Left, from left, NPR Reporter Huo Jingnan, OPB Broadcaster Tiffany Camhi, SAG-AFTRA Organizer Jerry Singh, and KBPS Multimedia Producer Alexander Nguyen at the AAJA conference. T he SAG-AFTRA News and Broadcast team was excited to start the summer of journalism conferences in Chicago in July with the National Association of Hispanic Journalists Conference, hosting a booth and member-led panel discussion titled Navigating a Career in Broadcast, a SAG-AFTRA Perspective. Next up, the SAG-AFTRA team attended the Asian American Journalists Association Convention in Seattle from July 31–Aug. 3, again hosting a booth and panel. The panel, titled Organizing and Empowering Your Newsroom, was a discussion with member leaders, organizing staff and audience members on addressing issues, advocating for solutions and cultivating relationships in newsrooms. In August, SAG-AFTRA hosted a booth at the National Association of Black Journalists Convention in Cleveland, and to round out the summer, SAG-AFTRA proudly hosted a booth at the NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists Convention in Atlanta in September. SAG-AFTRA on the Road at Journalism Conferences Members of Minnesota Public Radio's three bargaining units — MPR News, The Current and YourClassical — met up on June 26 before walking together into a companywide lunch with their board of directors in late June. Throughout the summer, the members mounted a successful campaign to win successor collective bargaining agreements that protect and improve upon their current benefits. The members unanimously ratified their contracts in August. Minnesota Public Radio Members Show Solidarity and Win Big