By John Glenday

New York Times chief executive Mark Thompson has become embroiled in a multi-million dollar legal action amidst claims that he oversaw an ‘environment rife with discrimination based on age, race and gender’.

The former director-general of the BBC is named alongside fellow executive Meredith Levien in a class action lawsuit filed by two black employees in their sixties who state that the paper favours young and white employees with no children.

Accusing the Times of ‘deplorable discrimination’ the two claimants state: “Unbeknownst to the world at large, not only does the Times have an ideal customer (young, white, wealthy), but also an Read full story ›

Source: The Drum