A 'New Yorker' Editor Dug For Diversity Stats. She Calls The Results 'Passive Racism'
Combing through the archives, Erin Overbey found that the print publication resembles "a Southern country club in the 1950s," in which barely any writers and editors of color or women are represented.
On Tuesday, journalism and literature Twitter blew up after a user posted a 20-part thread decrying the lack of diversity among writers and editors at one of the most vaunted publications in the country, The New Yorker.
The stats offered about the print magazine were : In the last 15 years, less than 0.01% of
