Pub Backs Blogger in Emails Before Canning Her

In the latest backlash over the firing of Naomi Schaefer Riley from the Chronicle of Higher Education, internal emails show that management supported Riley before abruptly canning her.

To recap, Riley, a former WSJ editor and Harvard grad, wrote for the publication’s Brainstorm blog for a year before Editor Liz McMillen (pictured above right alongside Riley) suddenly fired her this week for a post she wrote on Black Studies, saying the program should be eliminated, basing her view on dissertation titles.

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