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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said the paper had discriminated against a white, male employee who did not get a sought-after promotion.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has been investigating a reverse-discrimination claim filed last year against The New York Times by a white, male employee. Credit... Lucia Vazquez for The New York Times

May 5, 2026, 1:54 p.m. ET

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against The New York Times on Tuesday, claiming that the paper unlawfully discriminated against a white male employee who did not get a sought-after promotion.

The lawsuit, filed in United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, says that the Times’s “stated race and sex-based representation goals influenced the decision not to advance” the man’s candidacy for a deputy real estate editor role in 2025.

The lawsuit followed a rapid escalation of an investigation that began last year when…