He referred The Washington Post to the head of Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh for comment. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editors did not respond to The Post’s request for comment. The controversy publicly kicked off Friday when Alexis Johnson, another black Pittsburgh Post-Gazette journalist, reported that the newspaper’s management had barred her from covering local protests Monday after a tweet from her went viral. They then told her she could not cover them at all because her tweet showed bias, Johnson told The Post. Alyssa Brown, a content editor at the paper, told The Post she also was receiving comments from readers about links to Murray’s and another story not working.

Source: Washington Post June 06, 2020 23:49 UTC