The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “will not apologize” for “attempting to eliminate bias,” its executive editor said, after coming under fire for barring a Black reporter from covering protests. The reporter rejected the argument, calling it “dehumanizing.”
staffers over his column on violence toward black Americans.
He continued:"You can disagree with that ethic, or dismiss it as pass[é]. But you cannot, fairly, call it racism." On the same day that Johnson was told she could not cover the protests, editors rebuked a 28-year-old white reporter, Joshua Axelrod, for one of his tweets. He had used a vulgarity to characterize a man suspected by police of looting. He told NPR that he had asked whether that tweet, which he deleted, would affect his assignments. He was told that it would not. He wrote about an issue involving the protests the next day.
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