Lewis Wallace first got into journalism, four years ago, with the help of a fellowship that encouraged diversity. And he brought his experience as a transgender man to his new job last year as a reporter at American Public Media’s “Marketplace,” a sometimes-offbeat business show and website based in Los Angeles.
Now, the 32-year-old has been fired after writing a post on Medium suggesting that journalists — especially those who are members of a minority group — need to rethink objectivity in the Trump era.
“We need to admit that those who oppose free speech, diversity and kindergarten level fairness are our enemies,” Wallace wrote.
A “Marketplace” executive, Deborah Clark, told me that his public rejection of objectivity is directly opposed to the company’s written guidelines, which call for staffers to keep their political views private and to be neutral. (The firing, on Monday, followed Wallace’s decision late last week to republish his post after initially deleting it at his employer’s request.)
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