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New York Times hands back Peabody Award, is stripped of other honour over failure to verify Caliphate podcast claims
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.
Key points:
- Shehroze Chaudhry claimed to be an ISIS executioner who used the alias Abu Huzayfah
- He was arrested this year in Canada for perpetrating a terrorist hoax
- Journalist Rukmini Callimachi, who hosted the Caliphate podcast, has been moved off the terrorism beat
The Times said it could not verify the claims of a Canadian man whose account of committing atrocities for the Islamic State in Syria was a central part of the series.
Caliphate had won a prestigious Peabody Award, but within hours administrators said the Times would return the award. The Overseas Press Club of…
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