New York Times

Newsroom at 'New York Times' fractures over story on Hamas attacks

11:12am March 06, 2024

by David Folkenflik

The newsroom union at The New York Times accuses the paper of targeting staffers of Middle Eastern descent during an inquiry into leaks about internal debates over a story on the Hamas attacks.

A woman holds a pillow near the Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City, the site of a blast that killed hundreds on October 17. In the aftermath, Hamas and Israel traded blame.

World News

News outlets backtrack on Gaza blast after relying on Hamas as key source

4:41pm October 24, 2023

by David Folkenflik

The BBC and The New York Times are among the news outlets revisiting their coverage of a deadly blast at a Gaza hospital. They relied on Hamas as an authoritative source of information.

Walter Duranty, pictured in 1936 at a luncheon given in his honor by the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents at the Hotel Lombardy in New York, repeatedly defended Soviet Premier Josef Stalin.

World News

'The New York Times' can't shake the cloud over a 90-year-old Pulitzer Prize

8:15am May 08, 2022

by David Folkenflik

In 1932, The New York Times' Walter Duranty won a Pulitzer for stories defending Soviet policies that led to the deaths of millions of Ukrainians. The Times disavows his work but not the prize.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin answers questions from the media as she arrives at a federal court in Manhattan on February 15, 2022. The 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate filed on April 1, 2022, to run for the open House seat in Alaska.

Politics & Government

Sarah Palin files to run for the late Alaska Rep. Don Young's seat

10:42pm April 01, 2022

by NPR Staff

The former vice presidential candidate filed with the Federal Election Commission to run for the late Don Young's House seat.

Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin speaks with reporters as she leaves federal court on Feb. 14 in New York City.

Politics & Government

Sarah Palin loses defamation case against 'The New York Times'

5:10pm February 15, 2022

by David Folkenflik

It was a one-two punch for Sarah Palin: The verdict came a day after the presiding judge said he would dismiss the case because Palin's lawyers failed to meet the legal standard of actual malice.

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin arrives at a federal court in Manhattan to testify in her defamation case against The New York Times.

Sarah Palin testifies she felt powerless to fight 'New York Times' over editorial

10:10am February 11, 2022

by David Folkenflik

Sarah Palin said she lost sleep after a 2017 New York Times editorial falsely linked an ad from her political action committee to a mass shooting years earlier. She has sued the paper for defamation.

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Former New York Times editorial page editor James Bennet, shown here in a photo from 2017, said Tuesday he accepted blame for an editorial that falsely linked a graphic from former Gov. Sarah Palin's political action committee with a mass shooting in Ariz

Former 'New York Times' editor testifies on Sarah Palin editorial: 'This is my fault'

2:42pm February 09, 2022

by David Folkenflik

Former New York Times editorial page editor James Bennet testified Tuesday he was to blame for an incorrect passage about former Gov. Sarah Palin in a 2017 editorial on heated political rhetoric.

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Rukmini Callimachi and colleague Andy Mills pose with their Peabody Award for Caliphate at the 78th Annual Peabody Awards Ceremony in May 2019. The New York Times says it is returning the award.

National

'New York Times' Retracts Core Of Hit Podcast Series 'Caliphate' On ISIS

9:33pm December 18, 2020

by David Folkenflik

After an internal review, The New York Times now says it built the 2018 podcast Caliphate on a story it cannot vouch for. It says star reporter Rukmini Callimachi will no longer cover terrorism.

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New York Times writer & panel moderator Jim Dwyer. The Brooklyn Heights Association's meeting at St Francis College concluded with community service awards to Brooklyn Heights activists, and a panel discussion of the pros & cons of the proposed Brooklyn-Q

National

Opinion: Remembering Jim Dwyer, New York's Subway Storyteller, Pulitzer Prize Winner

2:26pm October 10, 2020

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon remembers New York Times columnist Jim Dwyer, who died from cancer this week at the age of 63.

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Journalists wearing face masks — in an effort to protect against the coronavirus — gather for a news conference earlier this year in Beijing. Early Wednesday, China said it was planning to pull the press credentials of certain journalists employed by

World News

China Pulls Credentials From Journalists At 3 Major U.S. Publications

7:38pm March 17, 2020

by Colin Dwyer

Beijing ordered certain staff at The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal to halt reporting inside China, in retaliation for a State Department move against Chinese outlets.