The NY Times has returned the Peabody award given to the newspaper’s ‘Caliphate’ podcast in 2018, after the show fell from grace upon the discovery that one of its top sources –an alleged IS executioner– was making his stories up.
The GF Peabody Awards announced in a statement on Friday that the Times would be returning the prize after concluding that “that crucial portions” of the IS-themed show –co-hosted by Rukmini Callimachi and Andy Mills– “did not meet its standards for accuracy.”
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