New York Times Points to Problems With âCaliphateâ Podcast, Plans to Reassign Reporter
Publication says in lengthy editorâs note that insufficient checking was âinstitutional failingâ
Rukmini Callimachi, right, with the 2018 Peabody Award in the radio/podcast category. Photo: Brad Barket/Associated Press By Updated Dec. 18, 2020 5:19 pm ET
The New York Times on Friday repudiated its prominent 2018 podcast titled âCaliphateâ that featured an alleged Islamic State executioner and will reassign Rukmini Callimachi, the reporter who led the series.
In a lengthy editorâs note, the Times wrote that it had made a mistake to focus extensively in the series on a Canadian who identified himself as Abu Huzayfah and claims to have killed people in Syria as a member of Islamic State.