New Yorker fires writer Jeffrey Toobin after Zoom incident
NEW YORK โ The New Yorker has fired longtime staff writer Jeffrey Toobin after he reportedly exposed himself during a Zoom conference last month. He had already been on suspension and is also on leave from CNN, where he is chief legal analyst. โI was fired today by @NewYorker after 27 years as a Staff Writer. I will always love the magazine, will miss my colleagues, and will look forward to reading their work,โ Toobin tweeted Wednesday. He is a former associate counsel in the Department of Justice who for the New Yorker has written about everything from the O.J.
Jeffrey Toobin on leave from New Yorker, CNN after exposing himself during Zoom call
Jeffrey Toobin, CNNโs chief legal analyst and a renowned reporter for The New Yorker, is on leave from both news outlets after he exposed himself during a Zoom call with colleagues, CNN reports. According to CNN, Toobin says the incident was an accident as he believed he entered the Zoom call with his camera turned off. Following the incident, Toobin was placed on suspension by The New Yorker amid an investigation of the matter, Vice first reported Monday. Toobin declined to comment to a CNN Business reporter and redirected to his statements to Vice, which claim the incident was an accident. I thought I had muted the Zoom video.โ
Toobin suspended by the New Yorker, steps away from CNN
FILE - Lawyer and author Jeffrey Toobin attends the 2018 PEN Literary Gala in New York on May 22, 2018. Toobin has been suspended by the New Yorker and is stepping away from his job as CNNs senior legal analyst pending what the cable network is calling a personal matter. In a statement Monday afternoon, the New Yorker said Toobin had been โsuspended while we investigate the matter.โ It declined further comment. A CNN spokesperson said in a statement that "Jeff Toobin has asked for some time off while he deals with a personal issue, which we have granted.โThe 60-year-old Toobin has been a New Yorker writer for more than 20 years and joined CNN in 2002. ___The headline of this story has been corrected to show that the New Yorker suspended Jeffrey Toobin and he is stepping away from his CNN role for a โpersonal matter.โ
Penguin Random House, PEN America team up to Book the Vote
NEW YORK โ Neil Gaiman, Anita Hill and Ann Patchett will be among the contributors to Book the Vote, an online initiative to provide information on the electoral system, voting registration and civic topics. Book the Vote is a collaboration among Penguin Random House, PEN America, the non-profit organization When We All Vote and the literary retailer Out of Print, which is owned by Penguin Random House. One feature is called โHow America Worksโ and covers four topics: the right to vote, voting for the president, the Supreme Court and the electoral college. โTruth, facts, press freedom, and the future of open discourse are all on the ballot this November,โ PEN America CEO Suzanne Nossel said in a statement. Noseel and Penguin Random House U.S. CEO Madeline McIntosh said they were pleased to be working together to provide credible and authoritative information about the U.S. election and voting rights.
Not so hush-hush search: Trump airs thinking on court seat
WASHINGTON โ Barack Obama spent hours reading legal briefs as he mulled candidates for the Supreme Court. President Donald Trump has a style all his own for selecting a nominee for the high court. He's flying by the seat of his pants with his frequent public deliberations on replacing Ginsburg, a process thatโs moving at warp speed. Trump is holding little back, readily airing his thinking on the state of the deliberations. He settled on someone he knew well: Harriet Miers, a Texan who worked for Bush when he was governor and then as White House counsel.