James Bennet
James Douglas Bennet (born March 28, 1966) is an American journalist. He is a senior editor for The Economist, and writes the Lexington column for the magazine. A former opinion page editor of the New York Times broke down in tears and apologized to Sarah Palin while testifying in court over a 2017 editorial that she says was defamatory. James Bennet ... In a courtroom drama, James Bennet, ex-editor of New York Times, apologized to Sarah Palin. This was regarding a 2017 editorial linking her PAC to political violence. Bennet admitted his mistake. James Bennet (second left) with Hillary Clinton (far right) on her trip as First Lady to north Africa in 1999 It is hard to imagine a path back to saner American politics that does not traverse... Former New York Times opinion editor James Bennet cried on the witness stand in federal court while apologizing to Sarah Palin over a 2017 story that falsely suggested her political action ...
James Bennet — who resigned as editorial page editor of the New York Times in 2020 amid internal fury over an op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) — hit back Thursday with a 17,000-word cover story for the Economist, where he's now Lexington columnist and senior editor. In raw and often personal terms, Bennet — a veteran journalist who rejoined the Times in 2016 after a decade-long stint as the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic — links his own ouster from... James Bennet testified that he “blew it” when he erroneously wrote that the former Alaska governor’s political action committee had contributed to an atmosphere of violence before a member of Congress was severely wounded in a 2011 mass shooting in Arizona. ... Bennet got choked up and teary as he apologized to the onetime Republican vice ... James Bennet, the former New York Times Opinion editor, told a jury on Thursday that he was the person responsible for rewriting crucial parts of an editorial that Sarah Palin said defamed her.
