Earlier this month, Donald McNeil Jr., a veteran science reporter for The New York Times, resigned following the publication of allegations alleging he had said the “n-word” during a company-sponsored event in Peru two years earlier.
At the time, McNeil explained the situation: “On a 2019 New York Times trip to Peru for high school students, I was asked at dinner by a student whether I thought a classmate of hers should have been suspended for a video she had made as a 12-year-old in which she used a racial slur. To understand what was in the video, I asked if she had called someone else the slur or whether she was rapping or quoting a book title. In asking the question, I used the slur itself. I should not have done that.”
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