NYTimes Communications
This is inaccurate and taken out of context. Here’s the full quote Joe Kahn gave when asked if Nick Kristof’s column would have run in the news report: “I mean it’s a little bit of a hypothetical. Nick, as you know, is an opinion columnist. He’s also a very accomplished New York Times foreign correspondent who made his name in various overseas assignments, in China, around the world, reporting out of Africa, Japan. He’s a very accomplished journalist. In his opinion column he also does a lot of original reporting, on the road. So Nick has his own brand and area of expertise. And that piece was edited by our opinion section, it wasn’t edited by our newsroom. So it’s distinct but it’s not a categorical difference. It’s impossible to say whether we would have done the identical piece. We probably wouldn’t have because it’s not — you know Nick has a particular focus on human rights and war and it is kind of part of his area of focus as a columnist. So to say, ‘would we have done that exact piece?’ No, we wouldn’t have done that exact piece. But we have reported very similarly on abuses in the Israeli prison system. We have also reported on sexual abuses by Hamas against Israeli prisoners or against Israelis during the October 7 attack. So we’ve reported on sexual abuse on both sides of that, and every time we do it excites a lot of controversy. Nick’s piece did as well. This one happened to be done by the Opinion section, by him as a columnist. You know, I have confidence in my opinion colleagues that they edit with rigor.”
Eliana Johnson
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