“While I respect that she has strong convictions, this was a clear violation of The Times’s policy on public protest,” magazine editor Jake Silverstein wrote in an email to staff Friday evening. “This policy, which I fully support, is an important part of our commitment to independence.”

Silverstein said Hughes also violated the policy earlier in the year

I get that it's a policy many disagree with but breaking it twice, yeah you'll get fired (or forced to resign I guess)