Supporters of The Washington Post attend a rally held by guild members outside the Washington Post office building in Washington, D.C., on February 5. Yesterday, On Monday, an independent arbitrator said the newspaper must rehire fired columnist Karen Attiah. File Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo
Aug. 24 (UPI) -- An independent arbitrator ruled that The Washington Post must rehire columnist Karen Attiah after it fired her last year for online comments she made about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
The Democracy Defenders Fund, which backed Attiah in the case alongside the Washington-Baltimore News Guild, announced the decision Monday.
"This decision confirms what we've said from the start: I was doing my job as an opinion journalist, and doing that job is not misconduct," Attiah said in a statement. "After spending over a decade of my career at the Post as an editor and an opinion columnist focusing on race, gender and global human rights, I'm relieved to finally have that record set straight."
The Post fired Attiah in September after she wrote two social media posts in response to the slaying of Kirk. She said she would not mourn the activist's death.
