A new report scrutinizes the many layers of error uncovered in a Rolling Stone article about an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia. Gwen Ifill talks to Steve Coll of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism about…
Apr 05

By Daniel Costa-Roberts, Elisabeth Ponsot
An independent review of a Rolling Stone article about the alleged gang rape of a University of Virginia student has found the magazine failed in the “reporting, editing, editorial supervision and fact-checking” of the now-discredited story.
Mar 23

Mar 23

By Justin Scuiletti
Police on Monday said that an investigation was unable to confirm that a gang rape, as described in a November 2014 Rolling Stone article, occurred during a fraternity party at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia has reinstated Phi Kappa Psi, the fraternity at the heart of a Rolling Stone story involving an alleged gang rape, after Charlottesville police said they did not find “any substantive basis” for the allegations.
Dec 22

By Kyla Calvert Mason
Rolling Stone Editor and Publisher Jan Wenner released an editor’s note saying the magazine will enlist administrators at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism to conduct an independent review of the editorial process that led to the publication of a…
Dec 11

By Kimberly Hefling, Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Only about 20 percent of campus sexual assault victims go to police, according to a new Justice Department report providing insight into why so many victims choose not to pursue criminal charges.
Rolling Stone magazine published a note to readers this afternoon saying they no longer have confidence in the account given by the woman featured in the piece of a rape that allegedly took place at a University of Virginia…
Dec 03

By Kyla Calvert Mason
Last month, Rolling Stone magazine published an article detailing the gang rape of a University of Virginia freshman, Jackie, by seven men in one of the campus’ fraternity houses and the university’s failure to investigate once the attack was reported…
The President of the University of Virginia announced on Saturday the suspension of activities for the school’s fraternal organizations until Jan. 9, 2015, following reactions within the school community to the recent recounting of an alleged 2012 sexual assault in…
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