Eight reporters in June signaled their intent to unionize, but several have since left.
Savannah Morning News and Athens Banner-Herald staff say they have the numbers to formalize a union.
Journalists at 24 Gannett newspapers decimated by financial cuts are protesting the failure of contract negotiations to resolve what they say is low pay and increasingly stressful working conditions.
USA Today has named Terence Samuel, a veteran political journalist who has helped to lead NPR's newsroom since 2017, to be its next editor in chief.
