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Arizona State University’s student newspaper, State Press Magazine, called on the university to end its institutional subscription to The New York Times in solidarity with members of the LGBTQ+ community who have criticized the paper for publishing homophobic and transphobic content.
On Feb. 15, a coalition of Times contributors wrote a letter to the newspaper condemning recent reporting in the paper that they described as damaging to the transgender community. GLAAD, an LGBTQ+ media advocacy organization, sent a similar letter on the same day.
State Press Magazine said in an article that it believed ASU and other universities should divest from the Times and “encourage the paper to correct its editorial bias in regards to coverage of trans and gender-diverse individuals.”
“As student journalists, we take the editorial standard of minimizing harm—enshrined in the Society of Professional Journalists’ code of ethics—extremely seriously. When the New York Times’ coverage of trans individuals is used to justify discriminatory anti-LGBTQ+ legislation being enacted across the country, it is clear that the paper has failed to uphold this core ethical principle,” the article said.
