Last year the Condé Nast was owned Enjoy your meal found himself hit with some sort of reckoning, after countless staffers of color – inclusive Priya Krishna, Sohla El-Waylly, Rick Martinez, Gaby Melian, Molly Baz and Carla Lalli Music – all left popular Test kitchen series of videos about lower charges pay compared to white colleagues, tokenization, stolen credit and more. The scandal revealed a lot about the inner workings and power differences in it a site that often strove to portray its staff as a group of mutually respectful colleagues all just hanging out in the kitchen together, highlighting the differences in power and pay across the site’s organization.
Now another, but related, Test kitchen finds himself undergoing a similar examination, such as Vulture reports that Sruthi Pinnamaneni and PJ Vogt, a senior reporter and host, respectively, for the Answer all podcast, steps away from the series after their reporting on Enjoy your meal revealed similar issues with their own Spotify ownership Gimlet Media. In particular, Eric Eddings, a former Gimlet employee and co-host of The Nod podcast, outlined in a Twitter thread earlier this week some of the ways Vogt and Pinnamaneni, who reported on Enjoy your meal by them The test kitchen Spotify miniseries, reportedly hindered efforts to diversify Gimlet’s workforce, particularly during the period when the company’s employees were pushing for unionization. Eddings wrote, among other things: “The stories of the BA staffers deserve to be told, but to me it is detrimental that those reporting and stories come from two people who have been actively and AGGRESSIVELY working against multiple attempts to diversify Gimlet’s staff and content. He went on to discuss a number of instances where Vogt and Pinnamaneni pulled back from the organization and diversification efforts.
Both Vogt and Pinnamaneni apologized in light of Eddings’ statements; while Pinnamaneni was already planning to leave Answer all after The test kitchen miniseries, she has now left the show middle production. Meanwhile, Vogt, who is co-host Answer all with Alex Goldman and Emmanuel Dzotsi have stated that he will “distance themselves” from the podcast, with Vulture report that his departure from the series will be ‘permanent’. Gimlet Media has yet to issue a statement about the departures.