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Last week, Gawker Media employees voted to unionize. It wasn’t close. About 75 percent of votes were in favor of an union. In an unusual move before the vote, Gawker Media encouraged staffers to post in an open forum how they were going to vote and why. Both sides were vocal. But that wasn’t the reason why the vote has been called “historic.” It’s because Gawker is one of the first digital publishers to be union run. That momentum to unionize seems infectious as we learned this week when a group of journalists announced a conference to push unionization in digital media. The group includes journalists Mike Elk and Tim Shorrock. Now that more money is pouring into digital media and the market for writers has stabilized, unions may be gaining momentum, though unions are mostly foreign in the tech world. We’ll talk about Gawker’s union and where it might lead with Jill Geisler at Loyola University Chicago; Hamilton Nolan, senior writer at Gawker; Lowell Peterson, executive director of the Writers Guild of America, East; and Peter Sterne, reporter at Capital New York. MediaShift’s Mark Glaser is hosting and Jefferson Yen producing.