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Journalism professors call on New York Times to review October 7 report
Fifty-nine journalism professors from top US universities have called on the New York Times to address questions about a report that described a “pattern of gender-based violence” in the October 7 attacks on Israel.
The professors said they felt the need to issue a letter to the newspaper after coming across “compelling reports” challenging the integrity of the story.
“The Times’ editorial leadership appears to have largely dismissed these reports and remains silent on important and troubling questions raised about its reporting and editorial processes,” they wrote in the letter, a copy of which was obtained and posted online by the Washington Post.
“We believe this inaction is not only harming The Times itself, it also actively endangers journalists, including American reporters working in conflict zones as well as Palestinian journalists (of which, the Committee to Protect Journalists estimates, around 100 have been killed in this conflict so far),” the professors said.
A spokeswoman for the Times said that the paper has “reviewed the work that was done on this piece of journalism and [we] are satisfied that it met our editorial standards”, the Post reported.