Why You Can’t Take Politics Out of Work

Your company is not apolitical, no matter what your CEO says

Elizabeth Spiers
Marker
Published in
9 min readJun 8, 2021

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Here is a live shot of an office with no politics in it whatsoever. Photo: Raj Rana/Unsplash

I have several jobs, and one of them is “lowly adjunct” in the graduate school of journalism at NYU, where I teach a class about digital media innovation. As part of the course, my students have to conceptualize and prototype a new media product that could be used in a journalistic or newsroom…

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Elizabeth Spiers
Marker

Writer, NYU j-school prof, political commentator, digital strategist, ex-editor in chief of The New York Observer, founding editor of Gawker