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UVA Fraternity to Sue Rolling Stone over Retracted Gang-Rape Story

HeadlineApr 07, 2015

A fraternity chapter at the University of Virginia which was accused of hosting an alleged gang rape in Rolling Stone’s retracted article has announced plans to sue the magazine. Following a report from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism that found multiple reporting and editing errors, Rolling Stone has continued to place blame on the alleged victim at the center of the article, a woman named “Jackie.” Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner told The New York Times she was a “really expert fabulist storyteller” who manipulated the magazine. But Columbia journalism school dean Sheila Coronel said the report placed responsibility on Rolling Stone.

Sheila Coronel: “There were problems of methodology. There were problems of newsroom standards and procedures. Those were the key issues of our report. We don’t believe that in this case 'Jackie' was to blame.”

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