Rolling Stone UVA story ‘was a collaborative failure,’ say authors of investigation at a lecture
The mistakes in the controversial Rolling Stone article, “A Rape on Campus,” were fundamental and avoidable, Sheila Coronel, an author of the investigative report on the article, said at a conversation with the report's co-author, Steve Coll, on Monday night. Coll is the Dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and Coronel is the Academic Affairs Dean. The November article by Sabrina Rudin Erdely described in what Coll called “molecular detail” the alleged gruesome gang rape of the pseudonymous “Jackie” at a University of Virginia fraternity house party.
