An opinion editor at the Huffington Post revealed on Twitter her controversial goal to have less than 50 percent of content published by “white authors.”
“Month two of @HuffPost Opinion is almost done,” tweeted Chloe Angyal, deputy opinion editor for HuffPost. “This month we published: 63% women, inc. trans women; 53% writers of colour.”
In a follow-up tweet, she added, “Our goals for this month were: less than 50% white authors (check!), Asian representation that matches or exceeds the US population (check!), more trans and non-binary authors (check, but I want to do better).”
Angyal added that she consistently checks the races and genders of the people hired.
“I check our numbers at the end of every week, because it’s easy to lose track or imagine you’re doing better than you really are, and the numbers don’t lie,” she explained.
It’s not clear whether HuffPost may have broken hiring discrimination laws, but one thing is clear: its emphasis on its authors’ race and gender are troubling.
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