Inviting “intelligent discussion from all shades of opinion” has been core to the work of The Times since 1896, when our publisher Adolph Ochs declared it part of the newspaper’s mission. Combining rich discussion and debate in an important and unique way The New York Times helps readers better understand the world. At their core, Opinion guest essays are an argument defined and substantiated with evidence. The Inquirer has since apologized for a “horribly wrong” decision.Opinion guest essays were formerly known as Op-Eds because they appeared in print opposite the editorial page. The protest at the newspaper came as staff at the Philadelphia Inquirer called in sick over the newspaper’s decision to use the headline Buildings Matter, Too on an architecture article, a choice considered tone deaf and insensitive to the Black Lives Matter movement. Earlier this year readers and staff spoke out against a piece published by the columnist Bret Stephens that critics said embraced eugenics. It’s not the first time the paper has faced backlash over a controversial op-ed. Kathleen Kingsbury, another deputy editorial page editor who won a Pulitzer prize for editorial writing at the Boston Globe before joining the NY Times in 2017, will take over Bennet’s role until at least the November presidential election, the statement said. Those changes include an expansion of the newspaper’s factchecking procedures and a reduction in the number of opinion pieces written by non-staff members, AP reported. James and I agreed that it would take a new team to lead the department through a period of considerable change.”

“Last week we saw a significant breakdown in our editing processes, not the first we’ve experienced in recent years. “While this has been a painful week across the company, it has sparked urgent and important conversations,” Sulzberger wrote in the memo, reported by CNN. The New York Times publisher AG Sulzberger acknowledged the turmoil in an internal memo sent to Times staff on Sunday. Nikole Hannah-Jones, a black New York Times magazine writer, said she was “deeply ashamed” of the newspaper in a tweet that amassed almost 120,000 likes. “The decision to publish calling for troop deployments to quell unrest falls short of sound journalistic practice,” he tweeted. Sewell Chan, a former NY Times editorial page director, was among those who spoke out against his former employers for running the article in the first place. “The New York Times editorial page editor and owner defended it in public statements but then they totally surrendered to a woke child mob from their own newsroom that apparently gets triggered if they’re presented with any opinion contrary to their own, as opposed to telling the woke children in their newsroom this is the workplace, not a social justice seminar on campus,” Cotton fumed in an interview on Fox News Sunday. Cotton claimed he had not called for troops to be used against protesters but should be called on as a back-up “only if police are overwhelmed”.Įarlier in the day, Cotton blasted Bennet and the Times for reversing their initial decision to defend publication of the column in the aftermath of the staff revolt.

The announcement gave no explanation for Bennet’s resignation or Dao’s transfer, but the news drew swift comment from Trump, who tweeted that the opinion editor had “quit over the excellent Op-Ed penned by our great Senator New York Times is fake news,” the president added, repeating a familiar claim.Ĭotton also weighed in, accusing the Times of lying and smearing his character. On Sunday, the Times announced that James Bennet, its editorial page director since May 2016, had resigned with immediate effect, and that one of his deputy editors, Jim Dao, had been reassigned to the newsroom.

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