An editor at one of America's largest newspapers has lost his job just days after a "deeply offensive" headline triggered a mass staff walkout

A top editor at a newspaper in the US has resigned just days after apologising for a "deeply offensive" headline. 

Stan Wischnowski, the top editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, resigned today, four days after  the headline “Buildings Matter, Too” prompted mass walkouts from staff.

The headline was a play on the “Black Lives Matter” slogan and was put on an article discussing the damage done to the city’s buildings.

Mr Wischnowski apologised on Wednesday, the day the article was published, but the apology did not stop dozens of staff from calling in sick the next day as part of a mass walkout.

“The Philadelphia Inquirer published a headline in Tuesday’s edition that was deeply offensive. We should not have printed it,” the paper’s top editors wrote.

“We’re sorry, and regret that we did. We also know that an apology on its own is not sufficient.

“The headline offensively riffed on the Black Lives Matter movement, and suggested an equivalence between the loss of buildings and the lives of black Americans. That is unacceptable.”

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