“Caliphate” won two journalism honors in 2019, an Overseas Press Club prize and a Peabody Award. The Times started examining the podcast after Mr. Chaudhry was arrested by Canadian authorities on Sept. 25 under a terrorism hoax law. The Times appended an editors’ note to “Caliphate” and added editors’ notes describing problems with two articles by Ms. Callimachi in 2014 and 2019. In the interview, Mr. Baquet raised the possibility that Mr. Chaudhry had “duped” The Times, but said the news organization was at fault. “Look, there was a well-known reporter involved in it — Rukmini Callimachi,” he said in the interview.

Source: International New York Times December 23, 2020 00:00 UTC