They may have reprimanded the reporter but protected and didn’t name the reporter.
Thus it could be any reporter from the Times.
Assume that all the reporters did it until the divulge the name.
Absolutely!!
Here’s the FR thread on it:
New York Times Reprimands Reporter for Repeating ‘Unfounded’ Melania Trump Rumor
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3524515/posts