Two weeks ago, The New Yorker fired its archivist, Erin Overbey, after the longstanding staffer wrote an extensive thread blasting the magazine and top editor David Remnick. As the thread told it, the magazine had put Overbey under a performance review, accusing her of being “disrespectful,” self-plagiarizing, and including factual inaccuracies in her newsletter.
Overbey saw the review as a response to her having “consistently & persistently SUWF — a.k.a. Spoken Up While Female” — a reference to a public thread that she wrote last fall, highlighting pay and hiring inequality within the magazine. The explicit takeaway from this latest thread, which was published July 19, was that the magazine was punishing a whistleblower by attacking her performance: “I also hope that speaking out on this,” she wrote, “will make other publications think twice about going after or seeking to punish whistleblowers & institutional critics.” She also tweeted a bombshell allegation: that Remnick himself inserted an error into her newsletter on purpose.
The decision to fire Overbey by Zoom on July 25 came down from the “highest echelons of Condé Nast,” according to the Daily Beast. Her termination letter claimed the decision had concerned “a pattern of conduct that is disruptive to the operation of the company and undermines the journalistic ethics of our magazine.” That conduct allegedly included: “performance issues,” a violation of company communications policy, a “Final Warning for...
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