The New York Times has launched a mole hunt to determine “whether staffers leaked confidential information related to Gaza war coverage to another media outlet,” according to the Wall Street Journal.
The Wall Street Journal report called it the “latest internal crisis at the Times” where infighting over coverage of “sensitive topics like the transgender community and social justice” has erupted in recent months.
Veteran editor Charlotte Behrendt, who has been with the Times for nearly 23 years and oversees internal investigations, “has summoned close to 20 employees for interviews to determine” if they have been leaking, according to Bruell, as the Times is now “investigating itself.”
INFIGHTING CONTINUES AT NEW YORK TIMES AS STAFFERS COMPLAIN ABOUT LGBTQ COVERAGE
“The internal probe was meant to find out who leaked information related to a planned podcast episode about that article. But its intensity and scope suggests the Times’s leadership, after years of fights with …