The editor of the New York Review of Books is out at the magazine days after the publication published a controversial essay by former CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi.A spokesperson at the review, who would not give her name, confirmed Wednesday afternoon Ian Buruma is no longer editor. It was not immediately clear whether he had been fired or had resigned.She declined to answer further questions about when he left or if his departure was related to the Ghomeshi piece. She referred the Star to the magazine’s publicist, Nicholas During, who also confirmed the move.Buruma did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The publication drew sharp criticism for publishing Ghomeshi’s essay, titled “Reflections from a Hashtag,” in which Ghomeshi stopped short of admitting any physical abuse and did not explicitly apologize. Billed as “Jian Ghomeshi on Jian Ghomeshi,” under the header “The Fall of Men” as part of a package or stories on the magazine’s Oct. 11 cover, many saw the piece as an unfair platform for the disgraced radio host.“There are lots of guys more hated than me now. But I was the guy everyone hated first,” Ghomeshi writes in the piece, which was posted last Friday, adding that a female friend quipped to him he “should get some kind of public recognition as a #MeToo pioneer.”The former CBC radio host was acquitted of sexually assaulting three women in March 2016, following a high-profile criminal trial.A lengthy Star investigation eventually outlined allegations from 15 women.The New York Review of Books took a public flogging for giving Ghomeshi so much space, both from Toronto, where his trial set off a firestorm of #MeToo conversations years before the hashtag became a battle cry of the movement, and in the U.S.New York-based writer Moira Donegan told the Star when the essay came out, she saw it and a recent Harper’s Magazine piece by John Hockenberry, another broadc ...
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