The Intercept Promised to Reveal Everything. Then Its Own Scandal Hit. (Published 2020)
Internal documents show how a source ended up in jail — and the fallout in the newsroom.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/business/media/the-intercept-source-reality-winner.html
The documents fall short of revealing a conspiratorial cover-up. Instead they show an extreme version of the human errors, hubris and mismanagement familiar to anyone who has worked in a newsroom — and the struggle of The Intercept to live up to its lofty founding ideals in dealing with its own errors.