Ms. Cooper sought to professionalize Gothamist away from its bloggy and irreverent roots, telling reporters to be less openly hostile to the New York Police Department in their reporting, two reporters said. Ms. Roussel suggested that Ms. Cooper was trying to rein in Gothamist’s habit of adding “an element of editorializing to its coverage that can be interpreted as bias.”And Ms. Cooper started pushing the radio journalists to pick up their pace and to file stories for the web. The editor realized it was Associated Press copy; Ms. Cooper promptly fired Mr. Ms. Cooper declined to speak to me about Mr. Mogul’s termination. And that was true when Ms. Cooper called a virtual meeting Feb. 5 over Zoom to inform the full newsroom of her decision to fire Mr.

Source: New York Times May 23, 2021 23:14 UTC