Times editor ‘crestfallen’ over editorial that prompted Sarah Palin suit, colleague testifies

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin reacts to a reporter’s question as she leaves Federal court on Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, in New York, following proceedings in her defamation case against The New York Times. | John Minchillo/AP Photo

Errors in a New York Times editorial that led to a libel lawsuit from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin devastated the editor of that section at the time, a former colleague testified Friday.

New York Times reporter Elizabeth Williamson told a Manhattan federal court jury that when she was working as an editorial writer for the newspaper in June 2017, then-editor James Bennet rewrote much of what

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