Serena Williams Calls NYTimes After Paper Mistakenly Prints Photo Of Venus

The story was about how Serena Williams raised $ 111 million for a new venture fund, Serena Ventures. The incorrect photo did not appear in the online version of the story.

“No matter how far we go, we are reminded that this is not enough,” Williams said on Twitter on Wednesday. “That’s why I raised $ 111 million for @serenaventures. To support founders who have been neglected by ingrained systems without knowing their biases. Because even I am neglected.

Williams ended his tweet by saying, “You can do better, @nytimes.”

The Times responded on Twitter saying“It was our fault.”

“This is due to an error in choosing photos for the print edition and did not appear online,” tweeted the NYT Business account. – A correction will appear in tomorrow’s newspaper.

Williams’ tweet, which included a photo of the wrong photo, quickly garnered more than 3,000 retweets and more than 10,000 likes.

The Times reported that Serena Ventures will invest in founders with “different perspectives” and that the Williams-led firm is “already an active angel investor with a portfolio of 60 companies, including SendWave, MasterClass and Daily Harvest.”

There are countless examples of news outlets in recent years that confuse African Americans incorrectly and embarrassingly.

A KTLA reporter apologized to Samuel L. Jackson in 2014 after interviewing him and mistakenly thinking he was a fellow actor, Lawrence Fishburne.

And in 2018, Fox News apologized after using a photo of Patti Labelle in honor of the late Aretha Franklin.