New York Times: ‘Caliphate’ podcast didn’t meet its standards

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The New York Times acknowledged that its 2018 award-winning podcast “Caliphate” did not meet the paper’s editorial standards.

The podcast featured the claims made by Shehroze Chaudhry, who has since been charged with concocting a terrorist hoax, and the publication admitted on Friday that it had not done enough to ensure the accuracy of his claims following an investigation, which was launched after his arrest in September.

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