NY Times staffers slam ‘witch hunt’ as paper probes source of Israel-Gaza coverage leak
NY Post
New York Times staffers are claiming they are being subjected to a “witch hunt” by senior editors who are investigating the source of leaks about a podcast episode that was pulled because of newsroom arguments over a report about alleged mass rapes by Hamas.
Charlotte Behrendt, the Times’ director of policy and internal investigations, is overseeing an effort by management to suss out details about how deliberations involving its “Daily” podcast leaked out, according to Vanity Fair.
The Times is keen on learning the source of leaks that underpinned a story by the left-leaning news site the Intercept, which reported in late January that an episode of the podcast was spiked due to disagreements over a story that alleged Hamas gunmen systematically raped Israelis during their murderous Oct. 7 rampage.
Times staffers told Vanity Fair they were miffed that management was investigating the leak.
“It’s not something we do,” one Gray Lady staffer told Vanity Fair. “That kind of witch hunt is really concerning.”
According to the Intercept, the Times canceled an airing of the podcast “amid a furious internal debate about the strength of the paper’s original reporting on the subject.”
