The New York Times Co. will return the 2018 Peabody Award it received for the podcast Caliphate after an internal investigation found it did not adhere to the news organization’s standards for accuracy.The Peabody organization confirmed the news today, hours after the Times released the results of its investigation of the enterprise report about the Islamic State’s activities in Syria.
The paper said it has formally retracted the podcast, a rare admission of serious error.A Canadian man’s account of Islamic State atrocities, a central part of the 12-part podcast, could not be verified and should not have been trusted, the probe found.
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