Editor: NY Times not 'sitting on a news story' with Trump tapes

"New York Times opinion page editor Andrew Rosenthal insisted Wednesday that his newspaper is not covering up a big story by refusing to release an off-the-record portion of its interview with Donald Trump.

In a Wednesday blog post, Rosenthal told Times public editor Margaret Sullivan that portions of the meeting were meant to be "off the record. But he acknowledged that a recording of the board's talk with Trump was shared with other reporters at the Times, which may have resulted in some details being leaked to the public that were intended to be kept private.

He said, however, that the Times is not covering up any information related to the presidential campaign that would be crucial to the public's knowledge.

"These [editorial board] sessions are not about news gathering for stories," Rosenthal said.
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