Editors Barred A Black Reporter From Covering Protests. Then Her Newsroom Rebelled
The fight over racial justice that has sparked protests across the country is also upending some of the country's leading newsrooms.
At the New York Times, editorial page editor James Bennet stepped down on Sunday, yielding to hundreds of colleagues who had protested the posting of a column by Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark., in which he advocated for the military to help quell civil unrest.
The day before, the Philadelphia Inquirer executive editor Stan Wischnowski resigned. Controversy had erupted both in and outside his newsroom when the paper published the...