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Jason Plautz

@jasonplautz.bsky.social

Reporter for Politico, formerly E&E News. Denver-based, Cleveland-bred. Formerly: University of Colorado CEJ fellow, CU Boulder adjunct professor, National Journal. More at jasonplautz.com

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PEN Guild@pen-guild.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Months after telling staff that the E&E News brand was not going away, POLITICO is shuttering six publications. A statement from PEN Guild's leadership: This is unacceptable.

On January 29, as we were discussing buyouts for the energy and environment teams, Joe Schatz told PEN Guild union leaders “The brands and the publications are not going away. We are looking to sharpen their missions.” Today, he told us that E&E News as we know it is gone. Energywire, Climatewire, Greenwire, E&E News PM, E&E News Daily, PowerSwitch--six publications are being killed this summer. This is information that management should have had, and should have told us, while our colleagues were making the decision about taking a buyout earlier this year. PEN Guild’s Labor Management Committee has questioned POLITICO monthly since January--including Jonathan Greenberger himself--about the vision for the newly combined energy and environment teams. At no point was sunsetting the E&E News publications ever mentioned--not even at our most recent meeting on Thursday, June 4. And yet somehow Semafor had the exclusive at 9:17 a.m. today. This is the second time management has lied to employees in six months--the first being when John Harris said in December there would be no layoffs at the company, only to lay off some managers a month later. Management says that none of us should be shocked, that change is part of the news business, that they did not lie and that they only finalized this new plan last week. And yet the question remains why such ground-shattering, publication-killing plans were not part of the “new vision” management announced in January? Why were our subscribers only surveyed in May? This is not leadership. This is unacceptable.Bild
Jason Plautz@jasonplautz.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Some great news for the human journalists at @eenews.bsky.social and @politico.com. Big thanks to @pen-guild.bsky.social! wbng.org/2026/05/22/p...

VICTORY: POLITICO agrees to shut down both AI tools at center of landmark arbitration - Washington-Baltimore News Guild

The POLITICO and E&E News Guild (PEN Guild) members have earned a resounding final victory in one of the most significant labor-AI disputes in American journalism: following months of negotiations bet...

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Jason Plautz@jasonplautz.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Want to understand Trump's tech and energy agenda? Look to this 6,000-acre stretch of dusty plains outside of Amarillo. My dive into Fermi America's ambitious, risky, audacious and Trump-coded data center play. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Trump, atoms, AI and the Texas data center gusher

Fermi America wants to build a massive private nuclear-powered energy grid for artificial intelligence. Can the brassy avatar of Trump’s risk-taking tech economy survive?

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Jason Plautz@jasonplautz.bsky.social · last yr.

I just signed this petition to support PEN Guild in its fight to make POLITICO management hold AI to the same ethical standards as its journalists. Humans, care to join me? actionnetwork.org/petitions/ai...

Tell POLITICO Management: AI should work with journalists, not against us!

Last year, PEN Guild members ratified a groundbreaking first contract that included some of the strongest provisions in the industry around artificial intelligence. These protections not only gave uni...

actionnetwork.org

Jason Plautz@jasonplautz.bsky.social · 2y ago

"We have real lives at stake." For the Hopi Tribe, the Trump funding freeze isn't just about numbers on a spreadsheet -- stalled projects could determine whether households get reliable electricity or not. www.eenews.net/articles/we-...

‘We have real lives at stake’: Trump impedes Arizona tribe’s energy lifeline

The Hopi Tribe wants to use clean energy to replace the shuttered Navajo Generating Station. Those projects are now at risk.

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