New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal

Unionized staff at The New York Times and The Athletic voted unanimously to oppose a proposed partnership between The Athletic and Kalshi, whose prediction-market platform New York’s attorney general has labeled an illegal, unlicensed gambling operation that poses serious personal and financial risk. They argue that integrating Kalshi’s data into The Athletic’s journalism would undermine the companies’ claimed independence and erode public trust in their reporting.