NEW YORK—The New Yorker magazine says it has cut ties with its well-known political reporter Ryan Lizza for alleged sexual misconduct.
A New Yorker spokeswoman said Monday that the magazine recently learned Lizza had “engaged in what we believe was improper sexual conduct.” A CNN spokeswoman says Lizza will not appear on the cable news network, where he is a contributor, while it looks into the matter.
Lizza says in an emailed statement that the magazine’s decision was a “terrible mistake” and that he is “dismayed” that it was characterizing a “respectful relationship with a woman I dated as somehow inappropriate.”
Here’s the statement I just got from Ryan Lizza, the New Yorker writer who was fired over what the magazine today called “improper sexual conduct.” pic.twitter.com/pYdOVvSyLh
— Jim Dalrymple II (@Dalrymple) December 11, 2017