{"id":369372,"date":"2026-10-09T23:32:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T23:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369372\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T23:32:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T23:32:38","slug":"exclusive-whistleblower-behind-the-new-york-times-lawsuit-speaks-out-about-anti-israel-bias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/369372\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Whistleblower Behind the ‘New York Times’ Lawsuit Speaks Out About Anti-Israel Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"

On September 23, The Free Press exclusively reported<\/a> on the lawsuit filed against The New York Times by shareholders who said the paper failed to meet its most basic obligation: to report the truth, and correct itself in a timely manner when it didn\u2019t. The suit<\/a> relied on the testimony of an unnamed whistleblower who worked on the New York Times video desk for nearly a decade. In an exclusive interview with The Free Press, the 48-year-old whistleblower\u2014who we\u2019re identifying by her middle name, Guta\u2014gives color to her time at the paper. Her account is based on her records of Slack conversations, the company\u2019s internal editing history, project databases, and hours of meetings, all of which have been reviewed exclusively by The Free Press. \u2014The Editors<\/p>\n

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On Guta\u2019s first day at The New York Times, she walked into the newsroom and took a selfie. \u201cI was just so excited,\u201d she told me. \u201cIt was my dream job.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was 2016.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This caricature of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump was published in The New York Times. (Screenshot)<\/p>\n

By 2019, that excitement had started to fade. In April of that year, the Times published a cartoon depicting Israel\u2019s prime minister as a guide dog wearing a Star of David collar, led on a leash by the U.S. president, who was donning a kippah. The Times later acknowledged<\/a> the image \u201cincluded antisemitic tropes,\u201d and its editorial board called it \u201cappalling.\u201d The following month, publisher A.G. Sulzberger wrote to the entire company that the Times was \u201cupdating our unconscious bias training to ensure it includes a direct focus on antisemitism.\u201d In Guta\u2019s 10 years at the paper she said the training was never implemented to her knowledge, despite her raising it five or six separate times.<\/p>\n

And the bias didn\u2019t stop, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On September 23, The Free Press exclusively reported on the lawsuit filed against The New York Times by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-369372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}