Journalists see themselves as truth-tellers, and sometimes as contrarians. That fuels news organizations, but it also can bite back. Internal turmoil this spring at NBC News, NPR and The New York Times can essentially be traced to journalists turning a critical gaze toward their own employers.
FILE - A sign for The New York Times hangs above the entrance to its building, May 6, 2021, in New York. In spring 2024, NBC News, The New York Times and National Public Radio have each dealt with turmoil for essentially the same reason: journalists taking the critical gaze they deploy to cover the world and turning it inward at their own employers. FILE - MSNBC television anchor Rachel Maddow , host of “The Rachel Maddow Show,” moderates a panel at the John F.
There are several reasons why many journalists are more apt now to go public with complaints they may once have kept to sharing with colleagues down at the corner bar. Among them is the likelihood that their outlet is owned by a faraway hedge fund instead of a local family, said Joel Kaplan, associate dean for graduate studies at Syracuse University’s Newhouse communications school and a former Chicago Tribune reporter.
The New York Times frequently has been at the forefront with journalists questioning their organization. In 2020, the newspaper’s editorial page editorafter the newspaper disowned an opinion piece written by U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton about Floyd-related protests, following a staff protest. Some Times staff members also have spoken out intensely against the newspaper’s
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