UK newspaper editor calls Bill de Blasio fake interview blunder ‘humiliating’

A Times associate editor reportedly addressed situation in an email to staff, saying: We should have been on our guard'

It was humiliating" for a Times reporter to have quoted someone the journalist erroneously believed was former New York City mayor Bill de Blasio, an editor for the London outlet reportedly said in an email to staff.

We should have been on our guard. We should have tried much harder to speak to the people concerned," Ian Brunskill , the Times associate editor, told the company, according to an email obtained by Deadline. He went on to acknowledge the serious damage" done to the Rupert Murdoch-owned paper.