NYT clearly did the right thing in retracting Caliphate BUT, don’t let this comment from Dean Baquet pass, it is demeaning to every audio producer who does the work like the rest of the newsroom.../1 https://www.npr.org/2020/12/18/944594193/new-york-times-retracts-hit-podcast-series-caliphate-on-isis-executioner?origin=NOTIFY

Audio is not some ‘other’ beast from another planet. It is a platform through which newsrooms can reach an audience, perhaps one that isn’t consuming their news any other way. If this audio product operated under different rules than the rest of the newsroom.../2

That is a problem in the newsroom, not with the platform. To somehow palm this off as a problem with ‘audio’ is at best disingenuous. Editorial standards are editorial standards and if reporting under the name of your newsroom is not meeting those standards...

then it doesn’t matter the platform on which to appeared. I hope that all the hardworking journalists who work in audio, including at the Times, know that their work matters and that they are journalists too .../END