2 Black Staff Members Quit Bon Appétit as Tensions Over Race Continue

Bon Appétit faced a reckoning over race when Adam Rapoport, its longtime top editor, resigned in June after a photo surfaced on social media showing him in an offensive costume. The image underscored broader problems at the magazine. Staff members had long complained about his boorish behavior and a workplace culture of racial insensitivity.

After his departure, Roger Lynch, the Condé Nast chief executive, and Anna Wintour, the company’s artistic director and the chair of its diversity and inclusion council, met several times with Bon Appétit staff members. They pledged to diversify the staff, and their search for a new Bon Appétit editor in chief is ongoing. On Thursday, the company announced that Sonia Chopra, previously of the food site Eater, would help lead Bon Appétit as its executive editor.

Ms. Walker-Hartshorn said she remained skeptical of the company. “When you look at my career trajectory as a Black woman,” she said, “and you look at the trajectory of other employees and the autonomy they have and the brand power they have, it’s just not the same.”

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/business/media/bon-appetit-race-black-staff-quits.html