“There’s not a lot of nuance here,” Mr. Goldberg told me last week. And even while speaking on condition of anonymity, they refused to say who made the final decision to spike the Singer story. At the time, Ms. Lewis told the Esquire staff that it was an editorial decision, which the company repeated publicly. Mr. Singer denied the article's allegations shortly after it was published. Hearst’s call on the article was probably the highest-profile journalistic decision of Mr. Young’s two-year tenure as the magazine division’s president.

Source: New York Times July 27, 2020 00:00 UTC