A University of Virginia associate dean is suing Rolling Stone and reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely over the way the magazine portrayed her in the infamous, retracted story “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA.”
With an odd sense of fanfare, the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism last night produced a 13,000-word report on Rolling Stone's profoundly flawed account of a gang rape at the University of Virginia, "A Rape on Campus," that was published last November. Their conclusion? Rolling Stone fucked up a lot.
At a press conference this afternoon, Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo announced that his department has suspended—but not closed—an investigation into an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia, infamously detailed in a Rolling Stone article published last year. Longo said that the investigation…
Binjamin Wilkomirski's story was very sad and quite remarkable. In 1995, the Swiss clarinetist published a memoir titled Fragments: Memories of a Wartime Childhood, detailing his youth during the Holocaust, including time spent in two concentration camps. The book was met with awe and acclaim. It was called…
When a young woman says she's been raped at college, some people—her peers, administrators, and otherwise-disconnected conservative pundits—will go to great lengths not to believe her for various, usually bad reasons. So it's unfortunate that Rolling Stone's investigation of rape and its aftermath at the University of…
