Media body issues new statement saying executive director’s intervention ‘did not reflect what we all know’
The Society of Editors has said a statement it issued saying there was no racism in the British media failed to reflect reality, and stepped back from its defence of the coverage of the Duchess of Sussex after members of the board threatened to resign.
In a new statement issued after heavy criticism from journalists of colour and some newspaper editors, the media industry body said its executive director Ian Murray’s criticism of Meghan’s remarks in her interview with Oprah Winfrey had been made in the spirit of its “proud history of campaigning for freedom of speech and the vital work that journalists do in a democracy to hold power to account”.
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