Jazmine Hughes, an award-winning New York Times Magazine staff writer, resigned from the publication on Friday after she violated the newsroom’s policies by signing a letter that voiced support for Palestinians and protested Israel’s siege in Gaza.
Jake Silverstein, the editor of The New York Times Magazine, announced Ms. Hughes’s resignation in an email to staff members on Friday evening.
That letter, which was also signed by other contributors to The Times, protested the newspaper’s reporting on transgender issues.
Ms. Hughes joined The Times in 2015 and worked as an editor and writer for the magazine.
The petition Ms. Hughes signed about the Israel-Hamas war was published online last week by a group called Writers Against the War on Gaza.
Persons:
Jazmine Hughes, Israel’s, Jake Silverstein, Hughes’s, ” Mr, Silverstein, Hughes, Ms, Viola Davis, Whoopi Goldberg, ”, Jamie Lauren Keiles
Organizations:
New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The Times, Times, American Society of Magazine
Locations:
Gaza, Israel