New developments in the controversy surrounding the popular Reply all podcast, and his recent efforts to report on institutional and systemic racism in food magazine Enjoy your food, today as host Alex Goldman issued a series of statements admit that the program’s own problems with representation, reporting and inclusion forced them to cancel the Test kitchen miniseries, and put Reply all itself “paused”. This comes after both Reply all It was revealed that senior reporter Sruthi Pinnamaneni and co-host PJ Vogt were leaving the series, after former co-workers on the show’s home network, Gimlet Media, alluded to several cases in which the two showed hostility to efforts to diversify the company team. Canceling Test kitchen, Goldman dubbed the series “systemic editorial failure ”in its efforts to tell a story about another company, ignoring questions about the way Gimlet itself operated.
At the The audio statement released to the Reply all food, is at your personal Twitter account, Goldman clarified that this change did not represent the end of Reply all in general, but noted that the recent controversy has generated a “reckoning” on how the program handles its reporting. He also noted that the final two planned episodes of Test kitchen the series are still incomplete between the exits of Pinnamaneni and Vogt and will not be completed, issuing an apology to fans and people interviewed for the stories for not being able to finish the series. (The previous two installments will remain in the air, with a new disclaimer added to each of them.)
Reports of the behavior of Pinnamaneni and Vogt were brought to light by Eric Eddings, former Gimlet’s host The Nod podcast. Per THR, both former members of the Reply all the team will move to different parts of the Gimlet Media organization.