Patrick Healy

Man Is Charged After Fatal Shooting at New Hampshire Country Club

We will keep reporting and update the story with more news and information as we learn and confirm it. Here is the latest version of the story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Some readers thought we were ignoring the "Free Palestine" claim. We weren't. We were reporting carefully and publishing confirmable facts. The New York Times faces outside pressures to bend its standards sometimes and push one side's agenda. That's not what independent journalists do.

We kept reporting, and soon the attorney general of New Hampshire made a statement, and we updated our story with our reporting and his statement:

Our New York Times standards are clear: we work to confirm information for ourselves, and we try to get confirmation from multiple sources. We are independent journalists, and that means we don't recycle what others write, and we don't have an agenda in our reporting. We seek facts.

No one else confirmed the "Free Palestine" remark; some people told us they only heard other people saying they heard it. Authorities refused to answer questions about it. Meanwhile, other news outlets had the "Free Palestine" detail high up in stories, and some readers asked me why we didn’t.

The "Free Palestine" comment was attributed in several news reports to that same one witness. Our reporters called the witness; he declined to speak, and a woman who answered his phone (and who also witnessed the shooting) said she wasn't sure herself what the gunman said.

Witness says New Hampshire country club shooter yelled 'Free Palestine' during wedding violence: AP A witness said the suspected shooter yelled 'Free Palestine' during a deadly attack at Sky Meadow Country Club wedding that killed one and wounded two.

After this shooting happened at the New Hampshire country club, we published a breaking news story based on information from authorities and our interviews. Then we started seeing other news outlets report that a witness said the gunman was yelling "Free Palestine." www.foxnews.com/us/witness-s...

Man Is Charged After Fatal Shooting at New Hampshire Country Club

Readers ask me how @nytimes.com handles unsubstantiated information and why we don't include certain details in news stories. It has come up with coverage of Charlie Kirk, Gaza & other stories. A good example came up today. It's about this story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

Inside The Times’s Reporting and Judgment Calls on Charlie Kirk’s Assassination

I spoke with @nytimes.com reporters and editors about our stories and judgment calls on Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Here’s the conversation: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

How a Top Secret SEAL Team 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Apart

Our reporting is intended to help Americans better understand consequential missions undertaken by the U.S. military. You can read the story here:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

That problem is that these missions require extreme care and precision but are exceptionally vulnerable to failure. Some are big successes; others go wrong and there is often little public accountability.

The reporters interviewed two dozen current and former U.S. officials familiar with the mission. Why did these officials disclose classified information to us? Several said they did so because the 2019 mission highlights a problem that plagues Special Operations.

The reporters and editors on this story worked on it for months and discussed at length how to handle classified operational details. They factored in the public interest and the sensitivity of some of the information. They decided to withhold some sensitive classified details.

National security reporting like this is in the public interest. These missions often remain shielded by secrecy laws, leaving most Americans with no way to know about major actions that influence national security and may have an impact on their lives.

The Times proceeds cautiously when reporting on classified military operations. As our assistant managing editor for Standards and Trust, I want to walk through why we did this story.

How a Top Secret SEAL Team 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Apart

The @nytimes published a story today that has never been told: About a classified Navy SEAL mission in North Korea in 2019 intended to help Americans in high-level nuclear talks. That mission unraveled. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

What Will It Cost to Renovate the ‘Free’ Air Force One? Don’t Ask.

“It is free in the sense that a used car handed over by a neighbor looking to get it out of his driveway is free,” write @sangernyt.bsky.social & Eric Schmitt about attempts to hide the taxpayer dollars going to renovate the “free” Air Force One from Qatar. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...