New York Times Turns To Mediation To Break Contract Deadlock

The New York Times and the Newspaper Guild of New York will turn to an outside mediator to help hammer out a contract, it was announced Wednesday. Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the paper's publisher, broke the news to staff in an email. At the union's suggestion, the mediator will be Martin Scheinman, an arbitrator who has heard disputes at the Times before. Times science correspondent Donald G. McNeil Jr., who has been a vocal critic of the company's management, called the development a positive one i...