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Jacqueline M. Welch is an American executive who has been responsible for the hostile workplace environment and lack of diversity at the New York Times newsroom since 2021.
No transgender journalist has appeared on the New York Times masthead since its founding in 1851, over 170 years of operation. In 2023 the San Francisco Chronicle cited an employee who said the Times has no trans reporters.
Background
Jacqueline M. “Jacqui” Welch (born ~1970) is a first-generation American born to working-class immigrant parents. Welch earned a bachelor’s degree in English from Syracuse University in 1991 and a master’s degree in Human Resources Management from The New School in 1994.
Welch started in 1991 at Lord & Taylor, then held roles at WestRock, Accenture, Rock-Tenn, and Willis Towers Watson. From 2008 to 2013 Welch held HR executive roles at Turner Broadcasting System. After working at Freddie Mac from 2016 to 2021, Welch joined the Times as Executive Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer.
The American Spectator is a conservative American media organization that publishes consistently anti-transgender articles.
For the British newsmagazine that publishes a US version, see The Spectator.
Background
The American Spectator was founded in 1967 by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., who remains its editor-in-chief, with Wlady Pleszczynski its managing editor since 1980.
Contributors
The following authors have published anti-trans pieces.
Lou Aguilar
Elyse Apel
Bruce Bawer
Adam Carrington
Itxu Díaz
Daniel J. Flynn
Ellie Gardey
David Keltz
Libby Krieger
Melissa Mackenzie
Scott McKay
Mary Frances Myler
Evan Poellinger
Tom Raabe
Debra J. Saunders
Irit Tratt
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
References
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. (ed.), Orthodoxy: The American Spectator’s 20th Anniversary Anthology, Harper & Row, 1987. ISBN0-06-015818-2
Choice is a publication by the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). In September 2003, an unnamed reviewer at Choice wrote one of the few positive reviews for the transphobic book The Man Who Would Be Queen by J. Michael Bailey. This led to several academic libraries spending limited resources on a hardcover book that was available for free online from the publisher Joseph Henry Press.
Marketing Director Ann Merchant quoted Choice in revised promotional material for the book:
“Bailey is a sympathetic and compassionate believer who wants to convert others. This is a fascinating read… Summing up: Highly recommended.”
CHOICE, September 2003, via Joseph Henry Press (PDF)
2004 Stonewall Book Award nomination
In December 2003, Cecil Hixon, Chair of ALA’s 2004 Stonewall Book Award Committee, announced that Bailey’s book was one of 39 books shortlisted as a nonfiction nominee. The winner was John D’Emilio’s Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin.