Amazon claims New York Times didn't check facts for work culture exposé

Online retailer senior vice president claims newspaper failed to check backgrounds of sources and misled company about focus of article

Amazon has launched a scathing attack on the New York Times' exposi(C) of a "bruising" work culture at the online retailer, claiming the paper's journalists failed to check facts and verify their sources.

However, Times executive editor Dean Bacquet has disputed the allegations, saying he sticks by the story which was based on "more than a hundred current and former employees, at various levels and divisions, over many months".