New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet has weighed in on the controversy over the paper’s articleย that calledย Shonda Rhimesย an “angry black woman,” acknowledging that the newsroom staff should be more diverse.
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Times TV critic Alessandra Stanley, who was heavily criticized for her Sept. 18 review of ABC’s new drama “How to Get Away With Murder,” is part of the publication’s staff of cultural critics, which has 20 writers but only two people of color.
Baquet told NY Times’ public editor Margaret Sullivanย in her column Wednesday that those numbers need improvement.