File photo: The sun peaks over the New York Times Building in New York August 14, 2013. REUTERS/Brendan McDermidThe paper said the podcast ‘Caliphate’ failed to meet editorial standardsThe New York Times has returned one award and had another withdrawn over false reporting in “Caliphate,” the newspaper’s 2018 podcast series on militant group Islamic State. After conducting a two-month-long investigation, the NY Times on Friday said the podcast did not meet editorial standards, reports BBC. However, in interviews with NY Times aired on Caliphate in 2018, Chaudhry claimed to have executed people for IS. As quoted by BBC, NY Times Executive Editor Dean Basquet in a podcast on Friday said: “This failing was not about one reporter.

Source: Dhaka Tribune December 19, 2020 16:41 UTC