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How the Times Lost a Defamation Trial

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By Bill Grueskin Verified
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Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. It is rarely a good sign when the New York Times standards editor fires off an email to you at the end of the day. That’s especially true when that email arrives after your reporter published a “scoop” that was based on a shaky anonymous source and that was rapidly denied by key figures in your story.
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The 69-year-old rookie.

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By Bill Grueskin Verified
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Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. My first day on the job, I fucked up. This was not a call-the-libel-lawyers-ASAP fuckup. Nor was it a who-spelled-Trump-as-Trummp-on-the-homepage fuckup. It was a lesser offense, a rookie mistake, though in this case, the rookie was sixty-nine years old and had been editing news copy since he was nineteen. I’d just started my stint as a visiting editor at the Salt Lake Tribune, and the content management system was driving me nuts.
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Laurels and Darts: Documenting as protection.

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By Bill Grueskin Verified
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Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Susie Banikarim is away on summer vacation, so we’ve pulled Bill Grueskin back in, Michael Corleone–style. Susie will be back next week. For understandable reasons, many people don’t like having their picture taken by a news photographer. They may dislike it so much that they run from, or even threaten, the person holding the camera. But then, sometimes, a photographer comes upon a subject like Roswell Encina.
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