Dean Baquet, the paper s executive editor, said in a podcast distributed Friday that “this failing wasn t about any one reporter. I think this was an institutional failing.”
The Times assigned an investigative team to look into the story after Canadian police in September arrested Shehroze Chaudhry, who used the alias Abu Huzayfah, for perpetrating a terrorist hoax. He told the Times that as an Islamic State soldier, he had shot one man in the head and stabbed another in the heart.
Chaudhry s story fell apart upon further examination. Investigators concluded they couldn t be sure he d ever been in Syria and almost certainly didn t commit the atrocities he d claimed. Supposed evidence he offered to back up his story, including photos from Syria, were gathered from other sources.
Dean Baquet, the paper s executive editor, said in a podcast distributed Friday that “this failing wasn t about any one reporter. I think this was an institutional failing.”
The Times assigned an investigative team to look into the story after Canadian police in September arrested Shehroze Chaudhry, who used the alias Abu Huzayfah, for perpetrating a terrorist hoax. He told the Times that as an Islamic State soldier, he had shot one man in the head and stabbed another in the heart.
Chaudhry s story fell apart upon further examination. Investigators concluded they couldn t be sure he d ever been in Syria and almost certainly didn t commit the atrocities he d claimed. Supposed evidence he offered to back up his story, including photos from Syria, were gathered from other sources.
Dean Baquet, the paper s executive editor, said in a podcast distributed Friday that “this failing wasn t about any one reporter. I think this was an institutional failing.”
The Times assigned an investigative team to look into the story after Canadian police in September arrested Shehroze Chaudhry, who used the alias Abu Huzayfah, for perpetrating a terrorist hoax. He told the Times that as an Islamic State soldier, he had shot one man in the head and stabbed another in the heart.
Chaudhry s story fell apart upon further examination. Investigators concluded they couldn t be sure he d ever been in Syria and almost certainly didn t commit the atrocities he d claimed. Supposed evidence he offered to back up his story, including photos from Syria, were gathered from other sources.
Dean Baquet, the paper s executive editor, said in a podcast distributed Friday that “this failing wasn t about any one reporter. I think this was an institutional failing.”
The Times assigned an investigative team to look into the story after Canadian police in September arrested Shehroze Chaudhry, who used the alias Abu Huzayfah, for perpetrating a terrorist hoax. He told the Times that as an Islamic State soldier, he had shot one man in the head and stabbed another in the heart.
Chaudhry s story fell apart upon further examination. Investigators concluded they couldn t be sure he d ever been in Syria and almost certainly didn t commit the atrocities he d claimed. Supposed evidence he offered to back up his story, including photos from Syria, were gathered from other sources.
Dean Baquet, the paper s executive editor, said in a podcast distributed Friday that “this failing wasn t about any one reporter. I think this was an institutional failing.”
The Times assigned an investigative team to look into the story after Canadian police in September arrested Shehroze Chaudhry, who used the alias Abu Huzayfah, for perpetrating a terrorist hoax. He told the Times that as an Islamic State soldier, he had shot one man in the head and stabbed another in the heart.
Chaudhry s story fell apart upon further examination. Investigators concluded they couldn t be sure he d ever been in Syria and almost certainly didn t commit the atrocities he d claimed. Supposed evidence he offered to back up his story, including photos from Syria, were gathered from other sources.