Editor who oversaw Rolling Stone’s U-Va. rape story to step down

Source: Washington Post

By Paul Farhi July 30 at 12:14 AM 

The editor who oversaw Rolling Stone magazine’s erroneous story about a fraternity gang rape at the University of Virginia will leave the magazine, more than eight months after the story was published.

Will Dana, Rolling Stone’s managing editor, will step down next month after nearly two decades at the magazine. His departure comes amid a series of defamation lawsuits against the magazine as a result of its publication in November of “A Rape on Campus,” which described an alleged gang rape that authorities determined never occurred.

The U-Va. story at first received great praise for its searing revelations, but as it quickly unraveled, it garnered widespread condemnation.

Dana had only limited involvement in the development and editing of reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s nearly 10,000-word story. But he apologized for it on Rolling Stone’s Web site after major elements of it could not be corroborated.

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