[14][15][16] In 2003, after the Pulitzer Board began a renewed inquiry, the Times hired Mark von Hagen, professor of Russian history at Columbia University, to review Duranty's work.
[30] The federal judge in charge of the case, James Aubrey Parker, remarked that "top decision makers in the executive branch ... have embarrassed our entire nation and each of us who is a citizen.
[30] The issues were similar to those in the Plame affair criminal investigation, when The New York Times reporter Judith Miller spent two-and-a-half months in jail rather than reveal her government source.
[40][41] On 11 December 2023, a global strike was called in order to apply pressure for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, with activists encouraging participants to refrain from going to work, school, or making any purchases.
[45] On 29 April 2024, more than 50 tenured journalism US university professors and scholars called for a thorough external review into the reporting, editorial procedures and overall publication process behind the Screams Without Words investigative news piece.
Mufti said that it was "all the more important that any errors with previous reporting are recognised and corrected quickly" given the high stakes of the piece in light of the ICJ discussion and UN agency warnings of man-made famine.
[46] In 2002, The New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote a series of columns[47][48] indirectly suggesting that Steven Hatfill, a former U.S. Army germ warfare researcher named as a "person of interest" by the FBI, might be a "likely culprit"[49][50] in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
[61] Judith Miller wrote a series of prominently displayed articles suggesting Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was sourcing materials that could be used to make nuclear weapons.
"[63] According to author Michael Massing, the aluminum tubes—which were mentioned in Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech to the United Nations[64]—became "a key prop in the administration's case for war, and the Times played a critical part in legitimizing it.
[69] In October 2005, Judith Miller was released from prison after 85 days, when she agreed to testify to special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's grand jury after receiving a personal waiver, both on the phone and in writing, of her earlier confidential source agreement with Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
They believe that a bias exists which is neither liberal nor conservative in nature, but aligned towards the interests of corporations, which own most of these media outlets and also provide the majority of their advertising revenue.
The authors explain that this bias functions in all sorts of ways:[74] "by selection of topics, by distribution of concerns, by emphasis and framing of issues, by filtering of information, by bounding of debate within certain limits.
Tom Rosenstiel, the director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, suggested that the article does not make clear the nature of McCain's alleged "inappropriate" behavior: "The phrasing is just too vague.
[93] An earlier contentious wording was on September 5, 2005, in an article on Hurricane Katrina where she wrote "Fox's Geraldo Rivera did his rivals one better: yesterday, he nudged an Air Force rescue worker out of the way so his camera crew could tape him as he helped lift an older woman in a wheelchair to safety."
[92][94] An article published in 2017 by author Asgar Qadri in the Times (titled "In India, fashion has become a nationalist cause") was criticized by Indian Twitter users and some commentators, such as Barkha Dutt, for suggesting that the sari was co-opted by the Hindutva movement.
The New York Times published photos it says were gathered by UK authorities at the scene of the attack, including the remnants of a backpack, nuts and screws, and a device identified as a "possible detonator".
[108][109] On April 25, 2019, the Times international print edition published a cartoon, drawn by Portuguese cartoonist António Moreira Antunes, featuring U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
[122][119] The New York Times learned of the National Security Agency (NSA) warrantless surveillance program as early as autumn 2004, before the 2004 presidential election between George W. Bush and John Kerry.
Bernstein, whose wife owns two nail salons, asserted that such illegally low wages were inconsistent with his personal experience, and were not evidenced by ads in the Chinese-language papers cited by the story.
[142][143] In October, Reason magazine published a three-part re-reporting of the story by Jim Epstein, charging that the series was filled with misquotes and factual errors respecting both its claims of illegally low wages and health hazards.
[159] The Poynter Institute similarly suggested in a blog post that the elimination of copy editors would decrease internal expertise and hurt the quality of the daily news report.
[165] In September 2020, controversy arose over the Times updating the opening text of the project website to remove the phrase "understanding 1619 as our true founding" without accompanying editorial notes.
[166] The Times defended its practices and Hannah-Jones emphasized how most of the project's content had remained unchanged—but also admitted that she was "absolutely tortured by" her failure to consult more expert historians before making the sweeping claims that were subsequently removed.
Senator Tom Cotton entitled "Send in the Troops", which called for the mobilization of the U.S. military in response to rioting, and for "an overwhelming show of force to disperse, detain and ultimately deter lawbreakers", and which contained claims about the protests that the Times had previously identified as misinformation.
[180][181][182] In February 2023, almost 1,000 current and former Times writers and contributors wrote an open letter addressed to Philip B. Corbet, accusing the paper of publishing biased articles against transgender, non-binary, and gender nonconforming people,[183] some of which have been referenced heavily in amicus briefs like the defense of Alabama's Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act.
Contributors alleged that "the Times has in recent years treated gender diversity with an eerily familiar mix of pseudoscience and euphemistic, charged language, while publishing reporting on trans children that omits relevant information about its sources.
[186] Hundreds of high-profile figures signed the letter such as Roxane Gay, Jenna Wortham, Dave Itzkoff, Ed Yong, Chelsea Manning, Sarah Schulman, Jia Tolentino, Lena Dunham, Kate Zambreno, Gabrielle Union, Judd Apatow, Tommy Dorfman, and Cynthia Nixon.
"[191][192][193] That same day, an internal memo was sent by the editors, saying that "Our coverage of transgender issues, including the specific pieces singled out for attack, is important, deeply reported, and sensitively written.
[199] On January 4, 2024, The New York Times published an opinion piece written by Anna Marks that argues that "a Sapphic possibility" exists in the work of singer-songwriter Taylor Swift, a ubiquitous figure in popular culture.
[202] Justin Baldoni filed a libel lawsuit for $250 million against The New York Times for pushing an “unverified and self-serving narrative” using “cherry-picked and altered communications stripped of necessary context,” and allegedly ignoring evidence disputing her claims.