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For the context: Donald G. McNeil Jr., the author of the article, was a prominent journalist for New York Times leading their COVID-19 coverage from the beginni
by lr1970 5y ago
For the context: Donald G. McNeil Jr., the author of the article, was a prominent journalist for New York Times leading their COVID-19 coverage from the beginning of the disease. He was abruptly dismissed from NYT citing his use of some questionable language while on trip to Peru [0]. I wonder what role if any his COVID coverage played in his firing.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_McNeil_Jr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_McNeil_Jr.
EDIT: wikipedia link ends in dot `.` that is stripped by the HN URL validator. If the link does not open add dot `.` at the end.
- tzs 5y agoFor future reference, write the dot as %2e in the URL and it will not be molested by the validator. Like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_McNeil_Jr%2e https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_McNeil_Jr%2e.
- TMWNN 5y ago>I wonder what role if any his COVID coverage played in his firing. The Times was pushing hard for McNeil to get a Pulitzer for his COVID19 coverage until his firing.