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

《纽约时报》与《The Athletic》员工要求公司取消与 Kalshi 的合作协议

With a unanimous vote, the Times Guild Unit Council and The Athletic’s contract action team approved the following statement: As unionized workers at The New York Times, we are deeply concerned by the company’s potential deal for The Athletic to partner with Kalshi, a company whose prediction markets have been described by New York officials in our reporting as an “illegal operation.”

《纽约时报》工会理事会（Times Guild Unit Council）与《The Athletic》合同行动小组以全票通过了以下声明：作为《纽约时报》的工会员工，我们对公司可能促成《The Athletic》与 Kalshi 达成合作协议深感担忧。据我们在报道中引述纽约官员的说法，Kalshi 的预测市场已被定性为“非法运营”。

Any partnership between Kalshi and The Athletic would threaten our journalistic independence across the company. Despite management’s claim that The Athletic and The New York Times are separate business entities, the journalism and the work are intertwined, as any reader can see.

Kalshi 与《The Athletic》之间的任何合作都将威胁到我们整个公司的新闻独立性。尽管管理层声称《The Athletic》与《纽约时报》是独立的商业实体，但正如任何读者所见，我们的新闻报道与工作内容是紧密交织在一起的。

Prediction markets such as Kalshi, which allow users to place bets on real-world events, pose as reliable sources of data but operate without the accountability of independent, fact-based reporting. An investigation by New York’s attorney general found that Kalshi’s prediction market platform is an “illegal, unlicensed gambling operation” that exposes users to “serious personal and financial risk.”

像 Kalshi 这样的预测市场允许用户对现实世界中的事件进行下注，它们自诩为可靠的数据来源，却在运作中缺乏独立、基于事实的报道所应有的问责机制。纽约州总检察长的一项调查发现，Kalshi 的预测市场平台是一个“非法、无牌照的赌博运营机构”，使用户面临“严重的个人和财务风险”。

On a fundamental level, a partnership more extensive than the purchase of advertising space — and that might integrate this product into The Athletic’s journalism — could cause readers to question our independence when we report on prediction markets. A partnership between The Times (for The Athletic) and Kalshi would also provide validation that their prediction market data should be taken seriously as an indicator of the future. Facts prove otherwise.

从根本上讲，如果合作范围超出购买广告位，甚至可能将该产品整合进《The Athletic》的新闻报道中，那么当我们在报道预测市场时，读者可能会质疑我们的独立性。《纽约时报》（代表《The Athletic》）与 Kalshi 之间的合作，也会变相认可其预测市场数据应被视为衡量未来的重要指标。但事实证明并非如此。

New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger has said that journalistic independence is the “core value” that “answers the question of why we’re deserving of the public trust.” We call on the company to live up to that commitment and abandon this deal.

《纽约时报》发行人 A.G. Sulzberger 曾表示，新闻独立性是“核心价值”，它“回答了我们为何值得公众信任的问题”。我们呼吁公司信守这一承诺，放弃这项交易。