Los Angeles Times’ Jason Felch Firing: 8 Awkward Questions

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The investigative reporter's firing reveals a tangled web of relationships around the controversy

It's disturbing when a Pulitzer-nominated investigative reporter is summarily fired by a newspaper, but especially so when the reasons for the firing fail to add up.

In a swift move that has shaken the L.A. Times newsroom, reporter Jason Felch was fired a week ago after Occidental College officials chose to challenge a front-page story he had written three months previously about sexual assaults that the college allegedly failed to report.

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Felch's story should have been edited by projects editor Julie Marquis but she suddenly quit in mid-November without explanation.
Instead, Felch's story was edited by education editor Beth Shuster. The story was not submitted to Times lawyers. Felch's stories were as a matter of course meant to be read by a masthead editor, but TheWrap has learned no masthead editor read this story before it was published.

TheWrap has learned that managing editor Marc Duvoisin recused himself from the story because his own son was a senior at Occidental College, and indeed was present at a scene described in the article. DuVoisin's son was among the athletes recruited to push back against the campus activists advocating for greater accountability over sexual assault. Duvoisin himself is an active member of Occidental's community. That normally would have left Davan Maharaj himself to read the final draft, it is unclear why Maharaj did not do so.

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[Orrex]

1. Second worst name ever.

[seveneyes]

2. Fishing for information at TheWrap for Feltching story

It was early when I read this and it was a bit hard to swallow.

[jollyreaper2112]

3. Not many are worse

Worked with a guy named Horelick, no lie.