Headline Roundup June 8, 2020
Top Philadelphia Inquirer Editor Resigns After Controversy Over "Buildings Matter, Too" Headline
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New York Daily News
The Philadelphia Inquirer's executive editor is stepping down after his newspaper ran a headline reading "Buildings Matter, Too" that garnered widespread backlash.
June 12 will be the last day for the newspaper’s top editor, Stan Wischnowski, CNN reported, citing a memo shared with the Inquirer’s staff. His replacement has not been announced.
Dozens of journalists for the newspaper called out of work last Thursday, two days after the headline ran in print amid public demonstrations and social unrest following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, in police...
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s top editor is resigning after an uproar over a headline lamenting damage to businesses amid turbulent protests denouncing police brutality against people of color, the paper announced Saturday.
The newspaper said Stan Wischnowski, 58, was stepping down as senior vice president and executive editor.
The Inquirer had apologized for a “horribly wrong” decision to use the headline, “Buildings Matter, Too,” on a column Tuesday about looting and vandalism on the margins of protests of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis at the hands of a white police officer.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer’s top editor has resigned after staffers complained about a “deeply offensive” headline that was published earlier in the week.
Stan Wischnowski, who worked for the Inquirer for two decades, published an article about the looting and destruction that came as peaceful protests over the death of George Floyd gave way to violent riots and looting in major cities nationwide — Philadelphia included.
The article’s headline read, “Buildings Matter Too.”
During Wischnowski’s tenure as editor, the newsroom has taken strides to double the number of minority staffers —...
