The New Yorker Journalist Suspended for Masturbating During a Zoom Work Call
The journalist thought no one could see him.
The New Yorker has suspended journalist Jeffrey Toobin for masturbating during a work video chat on Zoom with colleagues at The New Yorker and WNYC radio. Although the journalist apologized for what happened, Motherboard reports.
Jeffrey Toobin
journalistI made a stupid, careless mistake by assuming I was off camera. I apologize to my wife, family, friends and colleagues. I believed I could not be seen on Zoom. I thought none of the participants in the video conference would see me. I thought I had turned off my video.
Several participants of the call said anonymously that both of them saw Jeffrey masturbating. They said that when the video chat participants returned from a break, the journalist lowered the camera and could be seen touching his penis. Toobin reportedly then disconnected, but soon rejoined the conference, not realizing that his colleagues had noticed something.
A representative of the publication said Toobin had been removed from his post while the incident is investigated. At CNN, where the journalist also works, they said he asked for “some time off” to deal with personal issues.
The editor-in-chief of The New Yorker wrote in a letter to staff: “As you may have read in various news reports today, one of our contributors, Jeff Toobin, has been removed from his duties following an incident during a Zoom call. Be assured that we take this matter seriously and are addressing it.”
Jeffrey Toobin is a 60-year-old legal analyst for CNN and The New Yorker. The journalist has written several books, one of which formed the basis for the series “The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.”
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