Condé Nast Pays Over $400,000 to 3 Journalists Fired Over Protest

The publishing giant Condé Nast paid three journalists a total of more than $400,000 to settle a dispute over their firing last fall after they confronted the head of human resources about layoffs, the union representing the workers said on Wednesday.

As part of the agreement, Condé Nast reversed the firings so the employees could resign instead and gave them letters of recommendation, the union said. The journalists had worked at Bon Appétit, The New Yorker and Condé Nast Entertainment.

“We fought because we had to, because so much of an equitable future as workers and journalists depends on our combined efforts to resist inhumane treatment,” one of the former employees, Jasper Lo, who was a senior fact checker at The New Yorker, said in a statement.

A fourth fired employee, Jake Lahut, who had recently been hired as a political writer for Wired, declined a settlement offer. The union, the NewsGuild of New York, said a complaint filed with the National Labor Relations Board on his behalf remained active.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/business/media/conde-nast-fired-journalists-settlement.html