In a devastating internal review released, it was found that the paper had failed to corroborate the sensationalist claims made by Chaudhry and that the podcast team was duped by his fake story of working as an ISIS executioner. Michael Barbaro is engaged to Lisa Tobin, who as an executive producer on ‘Caliphate’, but he failed to disclose his personal link to the series on The Daily episode about the retraction . The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Show Caliphate, Ep An Examination of 'Caliphate' - Dec 18, 2020 Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The Times, discusses where “Caliphate” failed to meet Times standards. According to NPR, Barbaro also pressured at least five journalists via social media to play down the errors in Caliphate and to get them to pull back their public criticism of the series. Mills admitted that he previously 'made mistakes that I wish I could take back' while attending meetups during his tenure at WNYC where he 'looked for love' and 'earned a reputation as a flirt.'. 'We all want and need a culture in which any of us feels comfortable coming forward with complaints or concerns and can trust they will be examined fully and fairly. September: Trump repeatedly criticized the New York Times 1619 Project claiming it seeks to 'change our history'. Mills added that once he was cautioned over the behavior, he 'took this reckoning seriously and I continued to work at WNYC for nearly two more years without further incident'. During his interview with Barbaro, he said: 'When the New York Times does deep, big, ambitious journalism in any format, we put it to a tremendous amount of scrutiny at the upper levels of the newsroom,' he said in an interview with The Daily, another New York Times podcast. 'We are committed to helping build the systems and structures necessary to support audio's rapid growth and management needs and making the team a far more integrated part of the newsroom,' the memo added. In a letter sent to the New York Times Audio division, the Public Radio Program Directors Association said it had to question the paper's decisions as they needed to ensure their programming upheld 'the high standards that our listeners expect'. KCRW has concerns about how the Times has handled the aftermath of the erroneous reporting in its audio series Caliphate, which was featured on The Daily, and what this revealed about practices in their audio team. Quote: Andy Mills, a key producer behind the launch of The Daily, helped drive the sound and feel of Caliphate. 'I do this with no joy and a heavy heart,' he concluded. Weiss, who joined the Times in 2017, said the paper of record was among the media institutions now betraying their standards and losing sight of their principles as she accused them of only publishing stories that 'satisfy the narrowest of audiences'. The central figure of the podcast was Pakistani-Canadian Shehroze Chaudhry (using the name "Abu Huzaifa al-Kanadi"), who described in detail atrocities he claimed to have committed in Syria for ISIL. Monica … 'We have felt the inequity, exclusion and dominant white culture since #MeToo, carrying forward to the Black Lives Matter movement and the important cultural reckoning we experience in 2020 after the killing of George Floyd. Michael Barbaro apologized for DMing critics of the New York Times’ Caliphate podcast. Trump praises Lou Dobbs as Fox News cancels his high-rated... Hilaria Baldwin apologizes for faking her Spanish heritage... Farm Heroes Saga, the #4 Game on iTunes. It also comes as Donald McNeil, a Times science reporter who has been heavily involved in COVID pandemic coverage, also resigned after staffers called for him to go because of his use of the n-word. It was hosted by reporter Rukmini Callimachi.. 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Michael Barbaro is engaged to Lisa Tobin, who as an executive producer on 'Caliphate', but he failed to disclose his personal link to the series on The Daily episode about the retraction Folkenflik cited publicly accessible knowledge that Barbaro’s partner is Lisa Tobin, the executive producer of audio at the Times, who additionally served as the executive producer of Caliphate. MSNBC’s Ali Velshi: GOP Making ‘Weak Excuses’ Objecting to Covid Relief Bill to Mask Their ‘Cruelty’, Chris Hayes Condemns Gov. Yet more than 800 staff members signed a letter protesting its publication. And Daily podcast host Michael Barbaro was forced to repeatedly apologize after his personal links to the show emerged and it was reported that he was privately messaging and blocking Twitter users who criticized Caliphate. 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The host was in December tasked with speaking to the Times' executive editor Dean Baquet in an episode of The Daily - which is also broadcast on public radio - in which the paper retracted much of the story on which popular series Caliphate had been built. According to Folkenflik, Barbaro asked at least five journalists to limit their criticisms of the Times and its handling of Caliphate. So is leaving the job you love. Dolnick addressed Barbaro’s requests to journalists that they temper their criticism, noting that Barbaro “regrets” the interactions, and that editors “have discussed their expectations with him going forward.”. 'At the Times, I have strived to continue to grow and be a better co-worker and person, and not repeat the mistakes of my 20s,' he said. Mills had faced previous backlash over claims of misconduct in the workplace, including references in a New York Magazine article that reported he had been the subject of complaints during his time at 'Radiolab'. The account caused an uproar in Canada's parliament, with opposition Conservatives expressing outrage that Chaudhry was living freely in Ontario province after making the terror claims. The Times said the two-month review had concluded that the 12-part podcast featuring award-winning correspondent Callimachi, who has frequently reported on IS, 'gave too much credence to the false or exaggerated accounts' of Chaudhry. She has remained at the Times, Shehroze Chaudhry, 25, from Burlington, Ontario, has been charged with a terrorism hoax. He went by the name Abu Huzayfah in the podcast and described in harrowing detail his role in executions. 'At some point, maybe I'll tell this story more fully, but I got into this work to tell other people's stories. Revisionist history,' Trump claimed. 'The times are changing and yet based on this decision, it appears that The Times is not changing along with them,' it claimed.