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Based partly on a suggestion from Mr. Latour, it focused entirely on practical pieces, such as “how to update your résumé” or “how to approach a job interview.” Two Noted editors left in the last week of March, and now there are only four people on its staff. In a meeting between the strategy team and high-level editors, Ms. Story spoke about trying to track the racial diversity of people quoted in Journal coverage.A senior editor expressed concern about such a tack, according to two people who were briefed on the event, saying he was worried the paper might be sued if it came out that its reporters were passing over white people to quote Black people. In a Feb. 22 memo to the staff, Mr. Murray endorsed including a wider variety of people in The Journal’s coverage, pledging to “properly capture the diversity of our society and speak to as wide an audience as possible.”
