NY Times Exec Gets Reamed by Staff Over LGBTQ Slack Remark

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A New York Times executive stepped in it last week when she seemed to encourage a Slack room full of LGBTQ staffers not to raise workplace concerns in the channel dedicated to… raising employee concerns.

“I just wanted to share a note about discussing or reporting about your workplace experience to ensure everyone knows about our resources,” wrote Natalia Villalobos, the Times’ vice president of inclusion, strategy, and execution, in an April 3 post to TimesOut, the paper’s LGBTQ-focused employee resources group.

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