NYC Radio: Former Staffer Claims WNYC Is 'Toxic' Workplace

Jami Floyd

Liberal WNYC radio is nothing but a “toxic” cesspool of race and gender discrimination where bullies harass colleagues, a just-booted top editor charged Tuesday.

The Ny Post reports Jami Floyd — the 57-year-old former director of the public radio station’s Race and Justice Unit — alleged workplace race, gender and age discrimination at a fiery Manhattan press conference where she announced her intention to sue the station and its parent company New York Public Radio.

She also accused her ex-employer of retaliatory harassment, defamation and a violation of her civil rights.

Floyd abruptly resigned from her WNYC post Monday morning — after 45 of her articles were removed from the wnyc.org and Gothamist websites for alleged plagiarism.

“For years, black and brown people in general, and black women specifically, have had their careers derailed at New York Public Radio,” Floyd claimed Tuesday in front of the federal courthouse. “The company made a lot of noise about changing its ways.

“But I am here to tell you the culture has not been transformed, especially not when it comes to its black employees.

“Despite asking, begging, demanding, we still have no black reporters in the Race and Justice Unit. In fact, we have no black reporters anywhere in the WNYC newsroom.

She added that years after the anti-harassment #MeToo movement, “Bullies remain comfortably employed in the organization to this very day.”

Floyd is facing accusations she plagiarized articles published over a period dating back to 2010, when she began with the outlet as a freelancer. Some of the posts allegedly lifted entire paragraphs word-for-word from other sources.

WNYC had told Floyd her alleged plagiarism was a fireable offense before she stepped down, a source familiar with the situation had exclusively told The Post.