Amid National Racial Turmoil, New York Times Drops Its Race Beat
NPR
Friday, January 30, 2015
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Tanzina Vega, who was covering The New York Times' race and ethnicity beat, has been reassigned to cover the Bronx courts. (Twitter)
This week The New York Times said it would end its race and ethnicity coverage, moving the newspaper’s sole reporter on that beat, Tanzina Vega, to cover the Bronx courts instead.
The Times’ public editor, Margaret Sullivan, wrote about the move this week, saying the news was not well received by some readers.
NPR Media Correspondent David Folkenflik speaks with Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson about what race coverage means in today’s social climate, and why The New York Times may have decided to end it.
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