WaPo quietly suspended one of its top reporters last spring

According to a number of folks with information of the state of affairs, the suspension revolves round a tweet that Farhi shared in March noting that the paper introduced internally that it will be eradicating bylines from tales about Russia with a purpose to shield the security of its reporters. On March 4, simply days earlier than the suspension, Farhi had tweeted that the Post was eradicating “bylines and datelines from stories produced by our journalists in Russia” in response to Vladimir Putin’s “threats against reporters in Russia.”

The Washington Post declined to remark.

Farhi, who has been employed by the Post as a employees author since 1988, protested the suspension, with the guild submitting a grievance on March 14. The Post disputed the grievance and, in a communique issued two weeks in the past, argued that it was not arbitrable on grounds that the union’s collective bargaining settlement had expired. The guild’s grievance to the courtroom is, partially, an try and get a declaration that the case is arbitrable below the previous collective bargaining settlement.

The dispute with Farhi is one other component of inside Washington Post drama that has spilled out into public. The paper lately fired reporter Felicia Sonmez after she publicly known as out the masthead and several other colleagues for creating a piece local weather that she stated was hostile and misogynistic. The guild talked about in the identical lawsuit that it’s searching for to arbitrate Sonmez’s firing, a step that the paper has resisted.

In a press release, the Washington Post’s union stated employees had the appropriate to contest disciplinary motion and arbitrate, including that the Guild was “deeply disappointed by the Post’s unwillingness to respect that right or engage fairly with the Guild on disciplinary issues.”

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