Talk:Audrey Cooper

Conflict of interest disclosure
I have a conflict of interest as a personal connection to Audrey Cooper. I reviewed the WP:COI policy in June 2022 and now realize I should have made this disclosure the one day I did previous edits. I will abide by the COI policy. Factchecknyc (talk) 16:30, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Discussion at BLPN Noticeboard
There is a discussion about this article on WP:BLPN Factchecknyc (talk) 16:31, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Update issues
Hi. Thank you very much for taking the time to respond to my BLPN request. Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard/Archive339. There are a couple of problems. 1. I’m sure the first was inadvertent. In the fourth paragraph, third sentence, your correction reads as though Cooper no longer works at WNYC, which is not the case. And it does not give the time frame of the friction. Her tenure was also marked with conflict with her staff, layoffs, and terminations.'' Cooper is still the Editor-in-Chief at WNYC. The conflict described by the sources occurred during her first year of hire, in 2020. A suggested revision:

The first year of her tenure was marked by conflict with staff, layoffs, and terminations. 2. The second is more complicated. In the fourth paragraph, fourth and fifth sentences: In May 2021, their union, SAG-AFTRA, filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board against New York Public Radio, over Cooper's actions. The two groups settled in February 2022, agreeing to increase employee wage and benefits and extend employee protections against retaliation. This is more accurately phrased as: In May 2021, their union, SAG-AFTRA, filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board against New York Public Radio, regarding a host of long-standing labor issues, as well as complaints about Cooper. The two groups settled in February 2022, agreeing to an increase in employee wages, expanded parental leave benefits and an extension of employee protections against retaliation. As your final sentence on Wikipedia reflects, in part, the complaint is about many issues other than allegations against Cooper and including some that began long before she was hired in 2020. I added a source to support this. “At WNYC, they refer to the period that began in 2017 as The Troubles”” according to Ben Smith, the media critic at The New York Times. It’s also reported in The Wrap. (Interestingly enough, Ben Smith is incorrect that the NLRB complaint was against Cooper – it was against WNYC alone. The Wrap gets this right. The original source confirms the parties to the complaint. [​​https://foiaonline.gov/foiaonline/action/public/submissionDetails?trackingNumber=NLRB-2022-000703&type=Request] Ultimately, the settlement was mainly about typical collective bargaining labor issues unrelated to allegations against Cooper (e.g. A 3% wage increase, expanded parental leave, and “a host of claims regarding personnel issues relating to individual staff members.”) |Hollywood Reporter There was also “an extension of employment protections against retaliation.” |Hollywood Reporter This last one relates to the frictions with Cooper. I added the parental leave benefit just to make it a bit clearer that there were many issues being negotiated. Please also note that I propose changing “extended” to an “extension”, as per the wording of the article. This reads to me like an existing protection (e.g. union involvement in firings) was extended for an additional period of time, not like extended benefits (i.e. an expansion.) Thanks for looking at this. Factchecknyc (talk) 23:04, 11 July 2022 (UTC)