Public Editor: New York Times Nail Salon Exposé “Went Too Far”

“An exposé published earlier this year by The New York Times that detailed hazardous working and health conditions and mistreatment of workers in nail salons in and around New York City ‘went too far in generalizing about an entire industry,’ the newspaper's public editor, Margaret Sullivan, wrote Friday in a column. The two stories—‘The Price of Nice Nails’ and ‘Perfect Nails, Poisoned Workers,’ written by Sarah Maslin Nir and published on consecutive days in May—were widely discussed after they were published in English, Chinese, Korean and Spanish.” Read more at Newsweek.