A guide to the media industry’s ongoing reckoning with racism
Photo-Illustration: Vulture, Getty Images and Shutterstock The first week of June 2020 brought a reckoning for the media industry. As the country protested, and continues to protest, the systemic racism and police brutality that led to the deaths of black Americans — including George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, David McAtee, Nina Pop, and countless others — current and former media staffers called out the racism at their publications.
Teclemariam resurfaced another instance of racism at Bon Appétit on June 9, tweeting about a Confederate-flag cake that Test Kitchen cast member and drinks editor Alex Delany once posted to his Tumblr. “I’m not posting a screen cap because y’all already know it’s true,” she added, although the cake has since been taken off Tumblr. According to the post, Delany baked the cake for a friend moving to South Carolina.
Some have called for Matt Duckor, Condé Nast’s head of programming who oversees Test Kitchen video content, to be fired. Black food journalist Hawa Hassan, who stopped working with Bon Appétit after being paid $400 each for two videos, wrote on her Instagram Story on June 9, “Today is a good day for @mattduckor to step down.
The Cut suspended beauty-editor-at-large Jane Larkworthy on June 9 for a comment she made on Adam Rapoport’s resurfaced brownface photo, writing, “This was so dead on, I was so afraid of you two that night!!!!!” The comment “does not represent the values of the Cut, and we’re sorry for the pain it has caused, in particular for the Latinx community,” Cut editor-in-chief Stella Bugbee wrote on Twitter.
After Tom Florio, the CEO of Paper owner ENTtech, exchanged emails with Michael, Florio wrote, “I do not agree with your assessment of your position at Paper.” He added, “We asked you why you were leaving and you told us it was personal. We respected your position. To insinuate that this was a race issue is disingenuous.” The Paper Twitter account replied to Michael’s tweet on June 3: “I’m the Black social media editor MLM mentioned and I absolutely stand with them.
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