When the Associated Press chose a new “Race and Ethnicity Editor” in 2010, it picked an African-American woman, Sonia Ross, for the post, and bragged that Ross would “produce coverage that captures the changing facets of race and ethnicity in the United States and its effects on the experiences of people of various races.” That was then.  This is now: Longtime Associated Press journalist Sonya Ross has sued the AP for race, sex and age discrimination and retaliation, alleging that she has worked under a “hostile and abusive” environment in the news service’s Washington bureau. According to the suit, Ross was the first African American woman to permanently cover the president for AP, but her career stalled several years later under one supervisor, identified in the suit as Employee A, and others at the organization. Ross claims that the AP created “a climate of hostility towards African American employees” and...(Read Full Post)