“It was a mistake that we realize silenced your voice, and we apologize. We will all work hard to learn from this.” AP executive editor apologizes to African climate activist for photo crop that removed her from image where she posed with other activists.
Climate activist Vanessa Nakate, Luisa Neubauer, Greta Thunberg, Isabelle Axelsson and Loukina Tille, from left, arrive for a news conference in Davos, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 24, 2020. The 50th annual meeting of the forum is taking place in Davos from Jan. 21 until Jan. 24, 2020
The AP acknowledged that it aggravated the error through its initial response on Friday, and that it will expand diversity training worldwide as a result. The initial explanation for the cropping was that it enabled a close-up of Thunberg, and that it removed a distraction — a building behind where Nakate was standing.
A tearful Nakate posted a video on social media saying that when she saw the photo online, “it was the first time in my life that I understood the definition of the word ‘racism.’” She said she felt like her story had been erased.Thunberg supported her on social media, saying over the weekend that the picture was “totally unacceptable in so many ways. Like Vanessa said herself: ‘You didn’t just erase a photo. You erased a continent.
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