NY Times Chief sued over 'deplorable discrimination'

The Chief Executive of the New York Times is being sued by former staff for introducing a culture of “deplorable discrimination”.

Mark Thompson, who is also the former Director-General of the BBC, is facing a multi-million dollar class action lawsuit filed by two black female employees in their sixties- The Guardian reports.

The lawsuit claims that under Thompson’s leadership the paper “[became] an environment rife with discrimination”.

“Unbeknownst to the world at large, not only does the Times have an ideal customer (young, white, wealthy), but also an ideal staffer (young, white, unencumbered with a family) to draw that purported ideal customer,” the lawsuit states.