{"id":32821,"date":"2023-10-20T14:29:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/startupsmart.test\/2023\/10\/20\/amazon-puts-its-feud-with-the-new-york-times-and-its-workplace-culture-back-in-the-spotlight-startupsmart\/"},"modified":"2023-10-20T14:29:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T14:29:12","slug":"amazon-puts-its-feud-with-the-new-york-times-and-its-workplace-culture-back-in-the-spotlight-startupsmart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/uncategorized\/amazon-puts-its-feud-with-the-new-york-times-and-its-workplace-culture-back-in-the-spotlight-startupsmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon puts its feud with the New York Times, and its workplace culture, back in the spotlight &#8211; StartupSmart"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"444\" height=\"351\" itemprop=\"image\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/l_amazonpackage_445.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"l_amazonpackage_445\"\/><\/div>\n<p>More than two months after the <i>New York Times <\/i>published a <a href=\"leadership\/managing-people\/workers-cry-at-their-desks-survival-of-the-fittest-in-the-amazon-jungle\/2015081615315.html\">highly critical article<\/a> on the workplace conditions and culture of Amazon, the feud between the two companies has been reignited.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/08\/16\/technology\/inside-amazon-wrestling-big-ideas-in-a-bruising-workplace.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The original <i>NY Times<\/i> piece<\/a> was the product of a six-month investigation from two journalists and exposed \u201cbruising\u201d conditions Amazon employees are required to work under.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now senior vice president for global corporate affairs at Amazon Jay Carney has brought the story back into the news by <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@jaycarney\/what-the-new-york-times-didn-t-tell-you-a1128aa78931\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">questioning the credibility of the article in a post on <i>Medium<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven with breaking news, journalistic standards would encourage working hard to uncover any bias in a key source,\u201d Carney writes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith six months to work on the story, journalistic standards absolutely require it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy did the <em>Times<\/em> choose not to follow standard practices here?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Carney\u2019s argument centres on the credibility of four of the named sources in the <i>NY Times<\/i> piece. His rebuttal includes some personal details about their employment history and performance evaluations, an interesting move from a company that is trying to encourage its employees to raise concerns with their superiors and shed its reputation of being a bad place to work.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>New York Times<\/i> executive editor Dean Baquet quickly wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@NYTimesComm\/dean-baquet-responds-to-jay-carney-s-medium-post-6af794c7a7c6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Medium piece in reply<\/a>, reiterating his full support for the original piece and pointing to \u201cmore than a hundred\u201d sources that were interviewed for it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis story was based on dozens of interviews,\u201d Baquet writes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny reading of these responses leaves no doubt that this was an accurate portrait.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Not to be outdone, Carney took to Medium again to post a <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@jaycarney\/jay-carney-s-response-to-dean-baquet-c0407042e893\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reply to the reply<\/a>, calling the newspaper\u2019s journalistic integrity into question.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bottom line is the <em>New York Times<\/em> chose not to fact-check or vet its most important on-the-record sources, despite working on the story for six months,\u201d he writes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really don\u2019t see a feasible explanation for that failure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Neither of Carney\u2019s responses addresses the myriad of other issues raised in the <i>NY Times<\/i> piece, including the treatment of seriously ill employees and a lack of maternity leave.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>Want to grow your business with Instagram? <\/i><a href=\"startupschool\/\"><i>StartupSmart School can help<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than two months after the New York Times published a highly critical article on the workplace conditions and culture<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32821"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.startupsmart.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}