Rolling Stone To Publish External Review Of UVA Gang Rape Story Sunday

Protestors carry signs and chant slogans in front of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the University of Virginia, Saturday night, Nov. 22, 2014, in Charlottesville, Va. The protest, the most well-attended of sev... Protestors carry signs and chant slogans in front of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the University of Virginia, Saturday night, Nov. 22, 2014, in Charlottesville, Va. The protest, the most well-attended of several throughout the day, was in response to the university's reaction to an alleged sexual assault of a student revealed in a recent Rolling Stone article. (AP Photo/The Daily Progress, Ryan M. Kelly) MORE LESS

By Catherine Thompson

April 2, 2015 11:45 a.m.

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Rolling Stone on Sunday night plans to publish an external review of its disputed story about an alleged gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity, Columbia Journalism School announced Thursday.

Set your clocks: full #RollingStoneUVA report Sunday at 8PM @RollingStone & @CJR. Press conference Monday, noon-1. http://t.co/m4wlMRMu6G

— Columbia Journalism (@columbiajourn) April 2, 2015

Columbia Journalism School was tasked in December with conducting an independent review of reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s story. Other news outlets, most notably The Washington Post, had poked so many holes in Erdely’s reporting that Rolling Stone was forced to append an editor’s note to its story stating there were serious discrepancies in the account of the alleged rape as told by “Jackie,” the subject of the article.

The school will also discuss its report in a press conference Monday at noon ET.

Charlottesville, Va. police recently suspended their investigation into the alleged gang rape after finding no evidence that the incident described in the Rolling Stone article occurred at UVA’s Phi Kappa Psi frat house.

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Catherine Thompson (@kt_thomps) Catherine Thompson is a senior editor for Talking Points Memo in New York City. She came to the site in 2013 and reported on national affairs. Previously, she worked as a research assistant to investigative reporter Wayne Barrett. She can be reached at catherine@talkingpointsmemo.com.

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