NEW YORK, NY Sept. 10 (DPI) — In another powerful sign that reader feedback is influencing advocacy journalism, The New York Times this week reacted to its own report on gender issues at Harvard Business School — following up two days later with a report on the elite school’s pesky class issues.
“Class was the bigger divide than gender when I was at H.B.S.,” one recent graduate wrote to The Times’s Jodi Kantor, whose article on “gender equity” at the school triggered a broad response from students and alumni of the school.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/education/harvard-case-study-gender-equity.html?pagewanted=all
Ironically, neither report – the first published Sept. 7, the second Sept. 9 – allowed for reader comments on the NYTimes.com site, but an apparent barrage of feedback to the reporter – herself a Harvard Law School graduate — prompted her and her editors to publish a companion article.
The second report acknowledged that the private feedback spurred the follow up. As the article stated, “in reaction to an article published in The New York Times on Sunday about Harvard Business School’s attempt to improve its atmosphere for women, many students, alumni and readers echoed” comments that class issues were more challenging than gender issues.