This piece has been updated with more detail about the call and WNYC. Toobin announced the move in a tweet, saying he was glad to spend his last day on the air. Neither did Toobin’s literary agent Kristine Dahl nor Greater Talent Network, which represents Toobin. FORMER CNN anchor Jeffrey Toobin hit the headlines in 2020 after he was caught masturbating on a Zoom call about a presidential election podcast for WNYC and The New Yorker. NEW YORK (AP) Jeffrey Toobin, who rejoined CNN as a legal analyst after stepping away in the wake of exposing himself to colleagues in a Zoom call, said Friday that he was leaving the network after 20 years.
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Best, David.”Ī source told Motherboard that WNYC informed its staff on Monday that Toobin can no longer be booked on its shows, or work with WNYC in any other professional capacity.ĭoubleday, an imprint of Random House, which published Toobin’s latest book did not respond to emails. Please be assured that we take such matters seriously and that we are looking into it. The New Yorker editor David Remnick wrote in an email to all New Yorker staffers: “Dear All, As you may have read in various news reports today, one of our writers, Jeff Toobin, was suspended after an incident on a Zoom call last week. “Jeff Toobin has asked for some time off while he deals with a personal issue, which we have granted,” CNN said in a statement. Toobin was fired from the New Yorker magazine last November following an incident during a Zoom conference call in which he was caught allegedly pleasuring. NEW YORK Jeffrey Toobin, who rejoined CNN as a legal analyst after stepping away in the wake of exposing himself to colleagues in a Zoom call, said Friday that he was leaving the network. He did, however, appear on CNN, where he is the network’s chief legal analyst, on Saturday. Toobin’s Conde Nast email has been disabled and he has not tweeted since October 13. New Yorker spokesperson Natalie Raabe said: “Jeffrey Toobin has been suspended while we investigate the matter.” CNN star legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin was suspended by his other employer, The New Yorker, on Monday amid claims he was caught masturbating during a Zoom call with colleagues.
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