Top News Editor Claims SABOTAGE – Name Dropped!
(FeaturedNews.com) – A war between editors at The New Yorker played out on Twitter, with a lower-ranking archive editor accusing the magazine’s editor-in-chief of intentionally sabotaging her work. Erin Overbey laid out a series of 40 tweets aimed at David Remnick for adopting double standards with male and female employees, which she says led to him intentionally interfering with her work.
The male colleague at the magazine who added these errors to my copy while I was under performance review is David Remnick, the @NewYorker’s Editor-in-Chief. I don’t pretend to understand why he did this. I do know that he has intimate knowledge of Malcolm’s work & when she died.
— Erin Overbey (@erinoverbey) July 19, 2022
According to the 50-year-old’s tweet storm, Remnick, her longtime boss, placed errors in her work that brought her professional name under review. The Daily Mail laid out a timeline of the posts, which describe an environment at the ritzy publication that is hostile towards women and, through inaction, intentionally avoids addressing racial issues.
In one of the tweets, Overbey tags the magazine and sarcastically lets them know that she feels for them for being accused of doing something that wasn’t necessarily their fault.
I’ll be looking into pursuing a complaint on this matter—but, in the meantime, I would hope that the @NewYorker would have the decency to offer me an apology for seeking to penalize a longtime female employee w/a successful record for errors made by the magazine’s EIC. 38/
— Erin Overbey (@erinoverbey) July 19, 2022
The overall tone of the posting barrage shows a woman who seems obviously distraught that her career faced scrutiny, something she doesn’t believe was deserved. Overbey went into great detail about the errors she was forced to answer for, offering to provide evidence to back her claims.
Overbey’s boss hasn’t publicly responded to the allegations as of July 21.
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