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Journalists employed with The New York Times staged a walkout on Thursday amid suggestions that the English daily might halve the strength of its copy-editing staff from 100 to 50.
The protesting employees, many of them journalists, say copy editors are a crucial part in the process of news dissemination — a role that they say the NYT management has clearly discredited.
In a tersely-worded letter to Executive Editor Dean Baquet and Managing Editor Joe Kahn, the copy desk at Times termed the restructuring bid as ‘dumbfoundingly unrealistic.’
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