What the heck is going on at the Pittsburgh Post Gazette?

That is our question on this week's Reliable Sources Podcast.

Let's cue the music.

I'm Brian Stelter and this is our weekly podcast edition of Reliable, our chance to go in depth with media leaders and newsmakers talking about how the news gets made.

And of course the biggest story in the United States right now

is the Black Lives Matter movement. Certainly it is intersecting with the coronavirus crisis

and other stories but we have seen this tremendous reckoning in newsrooms

across America about racial injustice, about systemic racism, and about a lack of diversity and integration in newsrooms far and wide.

Dan Kennedy in Boston tweeted on Friday, June 12th.

He said, what's happening at the Pittsburgh Post Gazette is far more important than the recent

Alsters at the New York Times and the Philly Inquirer. Pay attention, he said.

Kennedy was linking to a New York Times story headline,

Post-Gazette staff revolts over the sidelining

of two black colleagues.

These two journalists said they were kept

from covering demonstrations. This is getting to be a bigger story each and every day.

In fact, now the union representing many journalists is calling for the top leaders of the

Post-Gisette to resign. So let's talk about it with leaders of the Post Gazette to resign.

So let's talk about it with one of the reporters who's in the middle of it,

Alexis Johnson.

She's joining me now from Pittsburgh.

Alexis, thanks for coming on. Brian, thank you so much for having me. I really appreciate it.

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