In her latest column, New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan addressed the paper eliminating its race/ethnicity beat.
In a memo earlier this week, the Times announced that Tanzina Vega — its only reporter on the beat — was moving to the Metro desk. We asked the simple and obvious question: Why do this now, when it seems we need this more than ever?
Sullivan spoke to executive editor Dean Baquet, who said the move was “not a cosmic decision about how we cover race” and that he hadn’t decided what to do with the beat.
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