A Feminist Twitter Campaign Targets Harper’s Magazine and Katie Roiphe
- 6 years ago
A Feminist Twitter Campaign Targets Harper’s Magazine and Katie Roiphe
In a later interview, Ms. Roiphe said that she herself did not know the identity of the person who started the list
and added, “I would never put in the creator of the list if they didn’t want to be named.”
Giulia Melucci, a spokeswoman for Harper’s, said, “We’re not going to tell the steps of the editing
process.” Through a spokeswoman, James Marcus, the editor of Harper’s, declined to comment.
I want to be clear on that.”
Claims that Ms. Roiphe’s article would identify someone behind the list appeared on social media around 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, when Dayna Tortorici, the editor of n+1 magazine, tweeted
that “a legacy print magazine is planning to publish a piece ‘outing’ the woman.” Ms. Tortorici went on to encourage the publication, which she did not identify, not to publish names.
By the next morning, five writers were said to have pulled stories planned for future issues of Harper’s Magazine — an effort to pressure
the magazine not to reveal one of the creators of a list of men in the media industry accused of sexually inappropriate behavior.
“But I think the greater good there is in the ethics of outing someone.” She added
that if she knew the name would not appear in the article, it would “conclude my interest in this.”
Ms. Melucci, the Harper’s spokeswoman, said she had no knowledge of writers pulling stories from the magazine
An email exchange obtained by shows that, during the editing process, a Harper’s fact checker contacted a person said to be a creator of the list
and said the article identified her as someone “widely believed” to be one of the people behind it.
In a later interview, Ms. Roiphe said that she herself did not know the identity of the person who started the list
and added, “I would never put in the creator of the list if they didn’t want to be named.”
Giulia Melucci, a spokeswoman for Harper’s, said, “We’re not going to tell the steps of the editing
process.” Through a spokeswoman, James Marcus, the editor of Harper’s, declined to comment.
I want to be clear on that.”
Claims that Ms. Roiphe’s article would identify someone behind the list appeared on social media around 2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, when Dayna Tortorici, the editor of n+1 magazine, tweeted
that “a legacy print magazine is planning to publish a piece ‘outing’ the woman.” Ms. Tortorici went on to encourage the publication, which she did not identify, not to publish names.
By the next morning, five writers were said to have pulled stories planned for future issues of Harper’s Magazine — an effort to pressure
the magazine not to reveal one of the creators of a list of men in the media industry accused of sexually inappropriate behavior.
“But I think the greater good there is in the ethics of outing someone.” She added
that if she knew the name would not appear in the article, it would “conclude my interest in this.”
Ms. Melucci, the Harper’s spokeswoman, said she had no knowledge of writers pulling stories from the magazine
An email exchange obtained by shows that, during the editing process, a Harper’s fact checker contacted a person said to be a creator of the list
and said the article identified her as someone “widely believed” to be one of the people behind it.