Several newsrooms have been roiled by internal and
external events recently:
• Stan
Wischnowski, the top editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, has resigned in the wake of anger over a
headline on a column on civil unrest. “Buildings Matter, Too” was the headline.
• In a statement, the Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh
said that on Sunday, guild member Alexis Johnson posted a tweet "deemed so
controversial and biased by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette management that it barred
her the next day from all protest-related coverage.” The tweet referenced looting and a Kenny
Chesney concert tailgate.
CNN said it
was pursuing a statement from the paper on the
matter.
• James
Bennet resigned Sunday from his job as the
editorial page editor of The New York Times, after the paper’s opinion section
published an op-ed by Arkansas Republican senator Tom Cotton calling for a
military response to unrest in U.S.
Poynter has
a piece on the NYT situation here.
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