Newsweek’s two top editors and a reporter were fired Monday as they were in the middle of reporting on the company’s legal problems, leaving the news staff in turmoil, NBC News reported.
Newsweek, at one time was one of America's top weekly news magazines, has found itself in the news lately, NBC News said, from a law enforcement raid at its New York City headquarters, to sexual harassment charges, to claims it had faked website traffic numbers.
Editor Bob Roe and Ken Li, the executive news director, were fired, two sources told NBC News. Investigative reporter Celeste Katz confirmed on Twitter that she was let go by the Newsweek Media Group as well.
Newsweek's political editor Matthew Cooper resigned in protest, citing on Twitter his lack of faith in the company's management.
There also was a report that the NYC staff had been told to go home on Monday afternoon.
CNN reported that the Manhattan district attorney's office had raided Newsweek's offices and walked away with several of its servers. The magazine self-reported that the raid was part of office's long-running investigation into the company's finances, per CNN.
Etienne Uzac, Newsweek Media Group's co-owner and chair, and his wife Marion Kim, the director of finance, resigned after the raid, CNN said. BuzzFeed had reported that Newsweek's chief content officer, Dayan Candappa, was placed on leave following a report into sexual harassment allegations against him, CNN said.
Reporter Josh Saul and International Business Times reporter Josh Keefe had been rumored to be fired as well, CNN said. A source told CNN, though, that an editor stepped in to save Keefe's job while Saul is on vacation.
The International Business Times website is owned by the Newsweek Media Group.
The New York Post reported that editors Roe and Li were in charge of Newsweek's investigation into the magazine parent company's financial affairs and its possible connection to Olivet University, a fundamentalist Christian college founded by followers of controversial Korean-American pastor Rev. David Jang.
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