“Caliphate” and the related report, “The ISIS Files,” by the podcast’s co-host Rukmini Callimachi, had been named finalists in the Pulitzer Prize’s international category last year. After an internal investigation that ended Friday, The Times contacted the Pulitzer board and offered to give up the finalist citation. “Upon review, the Pulitzer Prize Board has accepted The Times’ action and rescinded its designation as a 2019 Pulitzer finalist,” the Pulitzer board said in a statement Tuesday. The Times appended an editors’ note to “Caliphate” and added editors’ notes describing problems with two articles by Callimachi in 2014 and 2019. In the interview, Baquet raised the possibility that Chaudhry had “duped” The Times, but said the news organization was at fault.

Source: bd News24 December 23, 2020 13:06 UTC