The New Yorker said Monday that it had suspended the staff writer Jeffrey Toobin after a Zoom call last week among employees of the magazine and WNYC radio in which he reportedly exposed himself. “I made an embarrassingly stupid mistake, believing I was off-camera,” Mr. Toobin said in a statement about a report on Monday by Vice. “I apologize to my wife, family, friends and co-workers.”“I thought I had muted the Zoom video,” he added. “I thought no one on the Zoom call could see me.” In a text message, he declined to elaborate. A spokeswoman for The New Yorker, where Mr. Toobin has worked for more than 25 years, said in a statement that Mr. Toobin “has been suspended while we investigate the matter.”

Source: New York Times October 19, 2020 19:34 UTC