{"id":1863685,"date":"2023-02-28T13:19:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T18:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1863685"},"modified":"2023-02-28T13:27:03","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T18:27:03","slug":"wapo-quick-to-tout-its-commitment-to-diverse-representation-after-lone-black-board-member-quits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wapo-quick-to-tout-its-commitment-to-diverse-representation-after-lone-black-board-member-quits\/","title":{"rendered":"WaPo Quick To Tout Its Commitment to &#8216;Diverse Representation&#8217; After Lone Black Board Member Quits"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwapo-quick-to-tout-its-commitment-to-diverse-representation-after-lone-black-board-member-quits%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1863685&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>The Editorial Board lost the sole black member of its editorial board. <em>Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/02\/28\/washington-post-editorial-board-people-of-color\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telled<\/a><em> Axios<\/em> Tuesday it\u00a0&#8220;is committed to diverse representation in all its pages&#8221;  &#8220;plans to further expand the range of voices in the months to come.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Capehart, a gay black man, quit his 15 year position on the editorial board of the newspaper after a dispute over an editorial about the 2022 Georgia runoff election. A <em>Post\u00a0<\/em>Assured spokesperson <em>Axios<\/em> It was committed &#8220;diverse representation&#8221; As it searches for a replacement, the board is occupied.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Writers like Keith Richburg and Mili Mitra regularly contribute editorials. In recent months, the section also announced the addition of several contributing columnists including Theodore Johnson, Natasha Sarin and Bina Venkataraman, among several others,&#8221; The spokesperson continued.<\/p>\n<p>Financial troubles are looming and diversity appears to be the least of the newspapers&#8217; problems. The\u00a0<em>Post <\/em>It failed to break even last year, and in January it laid off 20 out of its 2,500 employees. Another 30 jobs remained unfilled. The paper also lost money <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/media\/washington-post-hit-with-biden-era-layoffs-as-subscriptions-plummet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Half a million<\/a> subscribers\u00a0since President Joe Biden took office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After losing its editorial board&#8217;s lone black member, the Washington Post\u00a0told Axios Tuesday it\u00a0&#8220;is committed to diverse representation in all its pages&#8221; and &#8220;plans to further expand the range of voices in the months to come.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe post WaPo Quick To Tout Its Commitment to &#8216;Diverse Representation&#8217; After Lone Black Board Member Quits appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":1863688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4212,3664,11032,6446,12654,19975,4026,14742,19974,7115],"class_list":["post-1863685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-black","tag-board","tag-commitment","tag-diverse","tag-lone","tag-quick","tag-quits","tag-representation","tag-tout","tag-wapo"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1863685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1863688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}