James Bennet resigned and his deputy, James Dao, is being reassigned at the newspaper, the Times said Sunday. Following a review, the newspaper said Cotton's piece should not have been published, at least not without substantial revisions. Bennet, who was editor of The Atlantic before taking over the Times' opinion pages in 2016, had received some heat for adding new voices, including conservative columnist Bret Stephens. Even before Bennet's resignation and the paper rescinding its support for Cotton's piece, Sulzberger had called for beefing up the opinion section's fact-checking and suggesting that it was publishing too many opinion pieces by outsiders. The Times reported that Cotton's piece was edited by Adam Rubenstein.

Source: CBC News June 07, 2020 21:22 UTC