Freelance writer Ruth Shalit Barrett filed a lawsuit against The Atlantic for $1 million after she claims the outlet smeared her in its retraction of her article.
The Atlantic Is Accused of Stealing a Freelancer’s Work, Denying Him Payment and Credit
Dean Sterling Jones says higher-ups at the Atlantic have ignored his emails requesting credit for his contributions to a March 2019 pieceLindsey Ellefson | January 10, 2021 @ 6:36 PM Last Updated: January 11, 2021 @ 7:37 AM
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The Atlantic is being accused by freelancer Dean Sterling Jones of stealing his work and denying him adequate credit and payment for his writing and research.
In a Sunday post on his personal website titled, “The Atlantic Stole My Work,” Jones said editors at the publication have “refused” to give him byline credit in spite of the inclusion of “whole sentences and paragraphs from a freelance pitch” he sent then-reporter Natasha Bertrand. TheWrap has reviewed his draft and the Atlantic’s story and found 11 similarities, including instances of the exact same wording used by Jones. The article in question, “The Enigmatic Russian Pay
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New York Times says Caliphate podcast on ISIS didn t meet its standards but issues no retraction
Elahe Izadi and Paul Farhi, The Washington Post
Dec. 18, 2020
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The New York Times acknowledged Friday that a celebrated podcast that featured a would-be Islamic State terrorist s account of committing atrocities in Syria could not be substantiated, completing a spectacular journalistic fall for the award-winning series and its primary reporter.
In several episodes of Caliphate, a Canadian man named Shehroze Chaudhry hauntingly described barbaric acts that included executing two hostages in Syria in 2014.
But after a nearly three-month review, the Times concluded that the podcast, co-hosted by reporter Rukmini Callimachi and audio producer Andy Mills, did not meet our standards for accuracy, according to an editor s note now attached to the series.