On a day where Philadelphia saw one of its biggest Black Lives Matter protests in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder in Minneapolis, big waves were also being made in its local media.

Stan Wischnowski, top editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer for the last five years has stepped down less than a week after the paper published its now-infamous “Buildings Matter, Too” print headline.

The Inquirer’s publisher, Lisa Hughes, announced the resignation in an email to staff on Saturday, June 6. An article announcing Wischnowski’s departure was also published the same day. 

The headline was first brought to light on June 3 on Twitter a day after its publication.

In the immediate aftermath, The Inquirer published a short apology on social media before releasing a longer one to both its readers and employees of color.

The paper’s journalists of color tweeted denouncements of the headline’s publication and dismay at the lack of cultural shift at the paper despite years (and for some, more than a decade) of talk about diversity in the newsroom.

They also published an open letter signed by 44 members of the staff calling on leadership to put their words on diversity into action and announced that they would call out sick in protest on June 4, which they did.

“We’re tired of shouldering the burden of dragging this 200-year-old institution kicking and screaming into a more equitable age,” part of the letter read.

Wischnowski will officially leave his post on June 12. No successor has been named, but it’s finally time for Philadelphia’s newspaper of record to put its words on diversity into action.