Hi, this is Alex Goldman. I'm one of the hosts of the show.

And I'm talking to you today to give you an apology and an update for me and the entire

staff of Replyall.

In the last few weeks, Replyall has been airing a series of episodes called The Test Kitchen,

which were reported by Shruthi Pintaminei about the structural racism and toxic work environment

at the Food Magazine Bon Appetite.

Last week, days after the publication of the second episode and what was supposed to

be a four-part series, former colleagues of ours at Gimlett publicly described multiple

instances of troubling behavior from both Shruthi and my longtime co-host, PJ Vote.

These accounts prompted a reckoning on our team about the work culture at Replyall.

And they left us asking whether we could continue airing this story without interrogating ourselves

and what is unfolded at Gimlett.

We now understand that we should never have published this series as reported.

And the fact that we did was a systemic editorial failure.

We are not going to be continuing this series, and PJ and Shruthi have both decided to leave

the Replyall team.

I and the entire team know that making Replyall, getting to tell people stories for a living

is a huge privilege.

We also know that we've let a lot of people down and made a lot of mistakes.

We're very sorry for our many failings.

We're sorry to our colleagues and our former colleagues that we hurt.

We're sorry to you, our listeners.

...