NYTimes Increases Newsroom Security

The New York Times has reportedly increased security around its newsroom following its decision to publish a controversial op-ed from an anonymous senior Trump administration official.

The expanded security measures come due to "the heightened nature of the attention we are receiving right now," the Times wrote in an internal memo obtained by CNN. CNN notes that the Times has seen "a substantial uptick in incoming calls," a number of which have been shared on Twitter by Times reporters and staff.

According to CNN, the memo directed staffers not to answer an incoming call if they do not recognize the number.

The increase in calls followed a tweet from White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders in which she slammed the Times for creating a “wild obsession with the identity” of the anonymous author and directed people to "call the opinion desk of the failing NYT" alongside the Times's general phone number.

Times reporters said they received a few angry phone calls, but wrote on Twitter that a number of the calls were complimentary in nature.

The added security comes just two days after the Times published an anonymous op-ed in which a top Trump administration official blasted the president's "amorality" and described an internal "resistance" to undermine Trump's presidency, according to The Hill.