Why race will continue to vex American newsrooms
ALEXIS JOHNSON, one of the few black journalists on the staff of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, was barred from covering the protests against racist policing on June 1st because editors claimed that she had displayed bias. Her offence? Firing off a sardonic tweet comparing the aftermath of looting to that of a tailgate gathering outside a country-music concert. Outrage mounted when colleagues who rallied to her side—including Michael Santiago, a Pulitzer prize-winning photojournalist—were deemed ineligible to cover the protests, too. Mr Santiago has since taken a severance payment and left. Ms...