Rolling Stone magazine has reached a settlement with a former associate dean at the University of Virginia who charged the periodical with defamation over claims made in its disastrous, false college rape story from 2014.
Rolling Stone’s managing editor Will Dana is leaving his position at the entertainment magazine as the publication faces lawsuits over an article falsely accusing a University of Virginia fraternity of gang rape.
A University of Virginia associate dean sued Rolling Stone magazine on Tuesday for more than $7.5 million, saying a debunked account of an alleged gang rape on campus cast her as the “chief villain.”
Richard Bradley, a writer and editor who questioned Rolling Stone’s “A Rape on Campus” story soon after its publication, reacts to the Columbia School of Journalism investigation of “what went wrong” with the reporting of that article–an investigation that cites his own early criticism by name.
In an interview with CNN on Monday, Alexandria Pinkleton, a friend of the woman known as “Jackie” that claimed she was a victim of rape by a University of Virginia fraternity in a November 2014 Rolling Stone magazine story by
As the reports on Rolling Stone’s journalistic fiasco make clear, author Sabrina Rubin Erdely and Rolling Stone’s editors failed to do the right—and professionally appropriate thing—time after time. Had they done anything akin to due diligence, the now-retracted mess of a story would never have seen the light of day, let alone have been enshrined in print.
The magazine fully retracts the original story, while CNN’s Brian Stelter reports that Rolling Stone’s publisher will not punish any employees involved in its publication.
On Monday, Charlottesville, VA Police Chief Timothy Longo said that there was “no evidence” to substantiate the alleged sexual assault at the University of Virginia described in a Rolling Stone article at a press conference regarding the police’s investigation. “A further
The University of Virginia restored fraternities on campus Tuesday without apology, requiring them to undergo safety and sexual assault training and adopt strict new rules on alcohol — or face continued banishment.