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Repost: Questions raised by the Alexi McCammond firing

Posted on March 22, 2023April 4, 2023 by Analytical Bear

Originally posted on March 22, 2021. Reposted with very minor edits. To recapitulate – in early March of 2021, Teen Vogue announced the appointment of one Alexi McCammond to the post of editor-in-chief. Shortly thereafter, a scandal erupted regarding a series of Twitter posts made by McCammond in 2011-2012, when she was at university, in […]

Repost: On the Emily Wilder firing from AP

Posted on February 26, 2023April 4, 2023 by Analytical Bear

Originally posted on May 26, 2021. Reposted without edits. On or about May 19, 2021, it transpired that The Associated Press (“AP“) has fired one of its newsroom assistants, Emily Wilder, after only 16 days on the job. While AP has remained fairly cagey regarding the firing, only noting that Wilder had violated the organisation’s […]