NYTimes Producer Andy Mills Resigns Amid Continued Caliphate Fallout, Renewed Scrutiny of Misconduct
Andy Mills, a New York Times audio producer who was one of the driving forces behind the now-discredited Caliphate podcast, has resigned from the Times amid ongoing controversy around the podcast and resurfaced allegations of harassment and misconduct at his prior employer.
Mills announced his resignation in a letter posted to his website Friday, addressing what went wrong with Caliphate, and acknowledging questions about why he didnt seem to face any apparent consequences.
While I remain proud of our team and what we were able to accomplish with Caliphate, getting any aspect of any story wrong, by any degree, is a journalists worst nightmare. After Caliphate was corrected, in print and in audio, peers of mine in the audio industry, from outside of The Times, began to raise questions about why I had been allowed to remain in my position.
There are answers to these questions: When it came to fact-checking support for the project, the Times leadership told us that they had their own internal system in place for stories of this nature. That system broke down. And they did not blame us. In fact, throughout The Times reexamination of Caliphate, they told our production team that wed engaged in rigorous and careful journalism. One masthead editor even made it a point to tell me: I wont let you blame yourself.'
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