EXCLUSIVE: The New York Times’ recent staff mutiny was not the first time employees raised the alarm internally over the paper’s trans coverage—or the first time management shut them down.
. But the genesis of the critiques can be traced back to 2021 when LGBTQ staffers pleaded with management to reform the paper’s trans coverage—pleas that largely fell on deaf ears.staffers within the paper’s LGBTQ-focused employee resource group, TimesOut, repeatedly tried to highlight to management the implications of its coverage of trans people.
But Reynolds said Ryan refused, citing a scheduling conflict. Members then began drafting a letter to the masthead that chastised the paper for publishing the review, saying it contributed to a culture of transphobia. The plan was to circulate the letter internally among TimesOut members and“We consider the publication, and the procedure that led up to this review, a failure of the company’s D.E.I.
Both TimesOut and management engaged in prep conversations ahead of the meeting with S. Leigh Thompson, a trans consultant hired by thewho specializes in issues regarding diversity, inclusion, and equity, and who worked to mediate the ongoing tensions between both parties. During a meeting between Thompson and TimesOut members, some expressed reservations about whether management truly cared about the nature and impact of its trans coverage, according to multiple sources.
“While we appreciate the right to offer criticism on The Times’s journalism, we reject the claim that our coverage is biased,” aspokesperson said in response. “The role of an independent news organization is to report on issues of public importance and follow the facts where they lead. The New York Times published hundreds of articles specifically on discrimination against transgender people and/or anti-transgender legislation between January 2020 and March 2023.
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