Pittsburgh paper accused of barring black reporters from covering protests, censoring stories

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The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “has chosen to silence two of it most prominent Black journalist during one of the most important civil rights stories that is happening across our country!” Santiago tweeted Saturday. He referred The Washington Post to the head of Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh for comment.

With the country gripped by an anti-racism uprising, what’s been unfolding inside the Pittsburgh newspaper has underscored one of the fundamental challenges American media faces with its coverage: a lack of diverse voices, including of black journalists, in newsrooms. It has also laid bare the challenges of trying to change that.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pittsburgh-paper-accused-of-barring-black-reporters-from-covering-protests-censoring-stories/ar-BB158zS5?ocid=anaheim-ntp-feeds

[greyl]

1. K & R

Link to tweet

[SharonClark]

2. I think there is more accurate reporting of these

protests vs past protests because there are many more reporters and news anchors who are POC.

[crickets]

3. Something's rotten in management.

Management told her that her byline on a protest-related article could lead “the credibility of the newsroom [to] be questioned and people might question if I was biased,” Johnson recalled.

Fellow journalists who expressed solidarity had stories pulled and reworked, and their bylines removed as well. This is not how unbiased media is supposed to work.