NYT Shareholder Demands 5-Day Board Records Inspection Over Kristof Column

1 articles · Updated · The Jerusalem Post · May 31

The National Center for Public Policy Research gave The New York Times five days to allow inspection of board and audit committee records or face court action over a May 11 Nicholas Kristof column.
The demand targets whether directors and senior management met fiduciary duties on legal, reputational and financial risk, including whether source-verification, legal review and corrections procedures were followed or bypassed.
Ehud Olmert, cited as an on-the-record source in the column, later said his remarks were misrepresented, a point the shareholder's counsel says heightens questions about the paper's internal review.
NJAC, representing the shareholder, says it is not seeking reporter notes or confidential sources but records on oversight, employee complaints and subscriber impact, citing media-company exposure such as Fox's $787.5 million Dominion settlement.
The records push comes as Israel has said it plans a defamation suit over the article, potentially adding pressure on the Times to disclose what evidence supports its published allegations.

Is this shareholder demand about protecting investors or a new way to silence controversial reporting?

If a key quoted source refutes the story, what does 'rigorously fact-checked' really mean?