Tensions at The New York Times over an investigative report on Hamas’ use of sexual violence in the October 7th attacks have erupted into the open over the past week with fresh conflict surfacing nearly every day.
The Times crisis reflects a series of cultural divides – between the conventional newsroom and the paper’s ascendant audio division; between management and many of the rank-and-file; between factions with differing reactions to the war in Israel and Gaza; and between the two sides of yawning industry chasm over whether to handle dissent internally or air it in public.
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Tensions at The New York Times over an investigative report on Hamas’ use of sexual violence in the October 7th attacks have erupted into the open over the past week with fresh conflict surfacing nearly every day.
The Times crisis reflects a series of cultural divides – between the conventional newsroom and the paper’s ascendant audio division; between management and many of the rank-and-file; between factions with differing reactions to the war in Israel and Gaza; and between the two sides of yawning industry chasm over whether to handle dissent internally or air it in public.
The story, published in late December under the byline of international correspondent Jeffrey Gettleman and two freelancers, said The Times had documented a pattern of sexual assault by Hamas as a brutal strategy.
“Revealing editing drafts, reporter notes or other confidential materials to outside media erodes trust and undermines our culture of collaboration,” Kahn wrote, along with managing editors Marc Lacey and Carolyn Ryan.
In late 2020, The Times was compelled to retract the core of an investigative podcast series from star reporter Rukmini Callimachi and producers drawn from the Daily’s team when the fantastical claims of its key source unraveled.
On Monday, Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger delivered the Reuters Memorial Lecture at Oxford University, with a focus on the importance of independent journalism in a divisive age.
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