Rolling Stone names Jason Fine as new editor, replacing Will Dana - USA TODAY
Wenner Media, its parent company, named Jason Fine as managing editor of Rolling Stone Monday, hoping to restore leadership at the magazine that has been beleaguered by a discredited story about the University of Virginia. Prior to becoming the editor of Men’s Journal in 2010, he was an executive editor of Rolling Stone for about two years. He joined Rolling Stone as an associate editor in 1997. Fine replaces Will Dana, who stepped down last month following the magazine's retraction of a December 2014 article Dana edited. "A rape on campus," reported and written by Sabrina Rubin Erdely, chronicled a story about "Jackie," who said she experienced a brutal gang rape at the hands of University of Virginia fraternity members. Rolling Stone commissioned the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism to conduct an investigation of the story, and the school subsequently issued a scathing report about the reportorial shortcomings in the story. Source: www.usatoday.com
