An emotional former opinion page editor for The New York Times delivered a tearful apology Thursday to Sarah Palin as he testified about a 2017 editorial that she says damaged her reputation. James Bennet testified that he “blew it” when he erroneously wrote that the former Alaska governor’s political action committee had

James Bennet is a former editor at the New York Times who added a false link between Sarah Palin and a 2011 shooting. They are in a defamation retrial

James Bennet, the former New York Times Opinion editor, took responsibility for an error in an editorial at the center of the case.