New York Times loses awards for Caliphate podcast after admitting it could not verify claims of supposed IS fighter

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The New York Times is stripped of one award and hands back another after it admitted it could not verify key claims in its podcast Caliphate, including if a central character who claimed to have been an Islamic Fighter had ever been in Syria.

The New York Times has been stripped of one award and handed back another after the newspaper admitted it could not verify key claims in its 2018 podcast Caliphate.He was arrested this year in Canada for perpetrating a terrorist hoax

, but within hours administrators said the Times would return the award. The Overseas Press Club of America also said it was rescinding its honour for the series.Canadian police in September arrested Shehroze ChaudhryHe told the Times that as an Islamic State soldier, he had shot one man in the head and stabbed another in the heart.

The story's central reporter, Rukmini Callimachi, will be reassigned off the terrorism beat, the Times said. The Times concluded he was a "fabulist" who concocted stories as an escape from his mundane life in a Toronto suburb or living with grandparents in Pakistan. Callimachi worked at the Associated Press from 2003 to 2014. The news organisation said that her reporting on terrorism "went through a rigorous editing process at all stages of the reporting and prior to publication. We stand by the stories".

 

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