Swiss newspaper apologises for ‘inappropriate’ headline about new WTO Director-General “We need to call out this behaviour when it happens,” tweeted NgoziA Swiss newspaper has apologised for publishing an offensive headline about new World Trade Organisation (WTO) chief Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.Okonjo-Iweala was the first woman and first African woman to be appointed as the Director-General of the WTO.But the regional daily Aargauer Zeitung caused outrage by headlining that “this grandmother will be the new chief of the WTO”.The controversial report was published on February 9, as well as in two other newspapers of the same group, CH Media, and on their websites.On Friday, the newspaper apologised for the “inappropriate and unsuitable” headline.“The title sparked [an] angry reaction from readers,” read a statement, signed by the editor in charge of international news. “We apologise for this editorial mistake,” they added.The newspaper also stated that the author of the article, based in Geneva, did not write the […]
Swiss newspaper apologises for ‘inappropriate’ headline about new WTO Director-General
