A Washington Post reporter Monday challenged the outlet's billionaire owner Jeff Bezos to provide paid paternal leave and give female employees equal pay.
National reporter Abigail Hauslohner linked to Bezos' tweet expressing gratitude to journalists and promoting the news outlet's pricey Super Bowl ad.
"I am proud to report fo @washingtonpost," she wrote. "I've been shot at while on the job, & I've run [from] airstrikes. I've been threatened [with] arrest. [I've] lost brilliant colleagues who were far less lucky. But we report bc it matters; bc an informed public makes informed decisions.
"I wish however, that I didn't have to give up my vacation & sick days & go wks w/out a salary in order to take leave w my infant daughter as I'm doing right now. Women reporters DO matter as much as male reporters, @JeffBezos. But we need your support. We need paid parental leave."
"And we need equal pay," she added. "You can do it because it's the right thing to do. Or you can do it because journalism matters. The truth matters. Journalists need to be able to do their best work. They shouldn't have to choose btw work & family."
She was not the only in-house critic.
"Now unfreeze our pensions, pay an equal wage, and strengthen maternity benefits," Dan Zak, a 14-year reporting veteran at the Post, tweeted Sunday night.
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