{"id":136682,"date":"2020-12-18T18:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T15:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ny-times-admits-caliphate-podcast-based-on-botched-reporting\/"},"modified":"2020-12-18T18:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T15:10:00","slug":"ny-times-admits-caliphate-podcast-based-on-botched-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ny-times-admits-caliphate-podcast-based-on-botched-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"#NY Times admits ‘Caliphate’ podcast based on botched reporting"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NY Times admits ‘Caliphate’ podcast based on botched reporting<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The New York Times\u2019 Pulitzer Prize-nominated podcast about ISIS was an \u201cinstitutional failure\u201d that included shoddy reporting based off interviews with a \u201ccon artist,\u201d executive editor Dean Baquet said Friday.<\/p>\n

In a blistering editor\u2019s note, the news<\/a>paper said the 2018 series<\/a> \u201cCaliphate\u201d blew its journalistic standards.<\/p>\n

An internal investigation into the 12-part series was launched after the main subject, Shehroze Chaudhry, was arrested in late September in Canada on charges he lied about his role in ISIS activity in Syria.<\/p>\n

Chaudhry had told the Times that he participated in executions carried out by the terror group.<\/p>\n

But the Times \u201cfound a history of misrepresentations by Mr. Chaudhry and no corroboration that he committed the atrocities he described in the \u2018Caliphate\u2019 podcast,\u201d the paper said in an editors\u2019 note added Friday.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cAs a result, The Times has concluded that the episodes of \u2018Caliphate\u2019 that presented Mr. Chaudhry\u2019s claims did not meet our standards for accuracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The note highlighted two main issues \u2014 that an editor with experience in the subject of terrorism was not assigned to keep a close eye on the series and that reporters \u201cshould have pressed harder to verify Chaudhry\u2019s claims before deciding to place so much emphasis on one individual\u2019s account.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is also clear that elements of the original fact-checking process were not sufficiently rigorous: Times journalists were too credulous about the verification steps that were undertaken and dismissive of the lack of corroboration of essential aspects of Mr. Chaudhry\u2019s account,\u201d the Times said.<\/p>\n

Baquet spoke about the bungle on the Times\u2019 podcast \u201cThe Daily,\u201d telling host Michael Barbaro that there was a possibility that Chaudhry had \u201cduped\u201d the paper.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, there was a well-known reporter involved in it \u2014 Rukmini Callimachi,\u201d Baquet said in the Friday episode. \u201cBut this failing isn\u2019t about any one reporter. I think this was an institutional failing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Baquet said Times\u2019 investigators found zero evidence to verify Chaudhry\u2019s story that he was an ISIS executioner in Syria.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think this guy, we now believe, was a con artist, who made up most if not all that he told us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Episodes of the podcast will now include audio corrections pointing out the shaky reporting.<\/p>\n

Callimachi\u2019s byline has not app<\/a>eared in the paper since the review began, the paper noted. She declined to comment to the Times.<\/p>\n

Baquet said she\u2019s staying on but will be taking on a new beat.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe and I are discussing possibilities,\u201d he said. \u201cI think it\u2019s hard to continue covering terrorism after what happened with this story. But I think she\u2019s a fine reporter.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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