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Debate Over Racial Justice Coverage Roils 'N.Y. Times,' 'Philadelphia Inquirer'

After reporters publicly rebelled, leaders at The New York Times and The Philadelphia Inquirer apologize for publishing controversial pieces on law enforcement and the protests over racial injustice.
After reporters publicly rebelled, leaders at <em>The New York Times</em> and <em>The Philadelphia Inquirer</em> apologized for publishing controversial pieces on law enforcement and the protests over racial injustice.

Journalists covering the protests against George Floyd's death at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer have been confronted by violent police and angry demonstrators.

Now they're confronting their newsroom bosses about editorial judgment in what they choose to publish on the subject.

and have apologized after their own journalists publicly denounced their respective papers' editorial judgment for choices they said belittled the structural racism facing African Americans. In. At , journalists of color got hundreds of their peers .

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