Last year, Condé Nast, owned Enjoy your food found himself hit with a kind of reckoning, after several black officials, including Priya Krishna, Sohla El-Waylly, Rick Martinez, Gaby Melian, Molly Baz and Carla Lalli Music – no longer popular Test kitchen series of videos on minor charges payment compared to white colleagues, tokenization, stolen credit, and more. The scandal revealed a lot about the inner workings and power differentials in a website that often endeavored to portray its employees as a group of mutually respectful colleagues, all just enjoying the kitchen together, and highlighting the disparities in power and pay across the site’s organization.
Now a different one, but related, Test kitchen is undergoing similar scrutiny, as Vulture reports that Sruthi Pinnamaneni and PJ Vogt, a senior reporter and host, respectively, for the Reply all podcast, are moving away from the series after your reports on Enjoy your food have brought to light similar problems in their own Spotify-owned locations Gimlet Media. Specifically, Eric Eddings, a former Gimlet employee and co-presenter of The Nod podcast, described in a Twitter topic earlier this week in various ways by Vogt and Pinnamaneni, who covered Enjoy your food Through The test kitchen Spotify Miniseries, were allegedly obstructive to efforts to diversify Gimlet’s workforce, specifically during the period when company employees were pushing to join a union. Among other things, Eddings wrote that, “The stories of BA employees deserve to be told, but for me it is harmful to have this story and narrative coming from two people who worked actively and AGGRESSIVELY against the multiple efforts to diversify the team and the content of the Gimlet. ”He continued to detail several cases in which Vogt and Pinnamaneni resisted efforts to organize and diversify.
Both Vogt and Pinnamaneni they made excuses in light of Eddings’ statements; while Pinnamaneni was already planning to leave Reply all after The test kitchen miniSeries, she now left the show intermediate production. Meanwhile, Vogt, co-host Reply all with Alex Goldman and Emmanuel Dzotsi, stated that they will “move away” from the podcast, Vulture reporting that his exit from the series will be “permanent”. Gimlet Media has not yet released a statement about the matches.