Article in Free Press by Staff, 9/16/25
Headline: “The Media 2070 Project Denounces the Washington Post’s Firing of Columnist Karen Attiah”
“On Monday, Karen Attiah, a Washington Post opinion columnist, wrote on her Substack that the paper had fired her over her social-media posts on gun violence and race following the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk last week in Utah.
“Attiah wrote she was fired for “speaking out against political violence, racial double standards, and America’s apathy toward guns.”
“Attiah noted she was “the last remaining Black full-time opinion columnist at the Post, in one of the nation’s most diverse regions,” adding that her firing “is part of a broader purge of Black voices from academia, business, government, and media — a historical pattern as dangerous as it is shameful — and tragic. . .”
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https://www.freepress.net/news/media-2070-project-denounces-washington-posts-firing-columnist-karen-attiah
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Article in The New Republic by Perry Bacon, 9/15/25
Headline: “Black Voices Are Vital to Democracy. The Media Must Stop Firing Them.”
Subhead: “The Washington Post’s Karen Attiah is the latest prominent Black journalist to lose her job. The trend is a sign of retrenchment in both fighting racism and saving democracy.”
“. . .And while the media changes are more subtle, the racial retrenchment is obvious. Republican appointees on the Supreme Court and lower-level courts and now the Trump administration have essentially outlawed any program that seeks to address racial disparities.
“Put these retrenchments together, and you have a very hostile environment for Black journalists. The political right is trying to basically outlaw any discussion of racial inequality—and news organizations are trying to appease the political right. . .”
Read the full article at:
https://newrepublic.com/article/200462/karen-attiah-black-voices-firing
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Article in Status by Oliver Darcy, 9/15/25
Headline: “Fired by The Post”
Subhead: “The Washington Post said it fired Karen Attiah over comments she made about white men in the wake of Charle Kirk’s death, Status has learned”
Read the article at:
https://www.status.news/p/karen-attiah-fired-washington-post-charlie-kirk
