A New York Times reporter got into an “epic blow-up” with his editor over a recent story about Harvard that resulted in the reporter filing a human resources complaint because he felt the editor threatened to “kill” him if his initial draft was too long.
Before the Times published a triple-bylined report last month about some of Harvard’s most prominent donors wanting to ”strike a deal” rather than fight the Trump administration, the high-stakes nature of the story resulted in tensions that boiled over as the deadline approached.
