Variety Editor placed on leave of absence after heated exchange with former reporter on Twitter
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The tweet upset Variety staff members and prompted much soul-searching at the news organization. Variety is owned by Penske Media Corp., controlled by auto scion Jay Penske, who also owns Rolling Stone magazine, Women’s Wear Daily and the Hollywood trade website Deadline.“She should have been listening vs. putting up a fight, and allowing for others to be heard and to heal,” Penske said.
Penske’s note to the staff added that Business Editor Cynthia Littleton is stepping in as editor in chief on an interim basis. Eller declined to comment, other than to say she recognized that she was in the wrong and was “really broken up.” In a memo that she sent to her staff, published in Variety late Thursday, Eller apologized for her remarks and called them “insensitive and ignorant.”
“I am so ashamed, humiliated and regretful for my actions and the pain it has caused both internally and externally,” Eller wrote in the memo, noting that she sent the tweet “in a moment when what I should have been doing was listening.”Eller joined Variety as its editor in chief in 2013, after two decades at the Los Angeles Times as a business reporter covering the film industry.
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