“The announcement comes at the end of a turbulent year at The Times, which
endured management turmoil after a series of scandals and a painful
self-examination over race, along with a dramatic drop in revenue amid the Covid-19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders, which prompted traditional advertisers to scale back their ad buys. Employees have been working from home since mid-March, but members of the newsroom nonetheless fanned out across the country to cover the pandemic, protests over racial inequities and a historic presidential election.”
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