Gannett will stop publishing diversity information, citing Trump's executive order

[HereForTheParty]

So Trump can dictate policy to a private news agency?

America’s largest newspaper chain, Gannett, will no longer publish demographic and diversity data about its workforce, and has revamped its corporate site to remove mentions of diversity.
The announcement was made in a company town hall meeting on Wednesday afternoon. A spokesperson told me the company is “adapting to the evolving regulatory environment,” and, in a follow-up email when I asked for clarification, referred me to Trump’s January 22 executive order eliminating DEI initiatives in federal agencies and calling for an end to “private sector DEI discrimination.”

Gannett did not specify whether the Trump administration had contacted anyone at the company, or asked them to make changes. Major U.S. companies like Amazon, Google, and Meta have also rolled back DEI initiatives this year.

“While we will no longer publish workforce demographic metrics or sustainability and inclusion reports, Gannett is deeply committed to our ethical business model,” Lark-Marie Antón, Gannett’s chief communications officer, told me in a statement. When I asked the company to define “ethical business model,” they said it is “based on treating all our employees with respect and ensuring a culture of belonging.”

https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/gannett-will-stop-publishing-diversity-information-citing-trumps-executive-order/

[jrthin]

1. The oligarch/billionaire media strikes again.

I suspect many of these people are using tsf as cover for what they've always wanted to do.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. Gannett is the Sinclair Broadcasting of publishing...

[spanone]

3. Our newspaper is owned by Gannett and it SUCKS.

[Hugin]

6. I have thumbed through a few Gannett papers over the years...

The lack of any sort of useful information gleaned from them is disturbingly awesome in a way. I wasn’t even sure of the local weather forecast.

It’s like a template is created and ever so slightly altered day-to-day. Like a recorded broadcast radio music playlist that is changed once a week and if something goes wrong it’s dead air until someone notices.

[Hugin]

4. The EO gives Gannett an excuse to do what it was aching to do all along.

Complying? Is that what bigotry is called these days?

[Celerity]

5. They need to change the pic on the main page for their brands

I am sure it will soon be gone, 'whitened up' if you will.