People who have worked with Rolling Stone reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely vouched for her integrity in a Friday Philadelphia Inquirer article.
Erdely wrote the story about the alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia for which Rolling Stone has since apologized.
“She’s one of the most thorough reporters I’ve ever worked with,” said Eliot Kaplan, who hired Erdely at Philadelphia Magazine in 1994. “She’s not a shortcut-taker – very precise, diligent.”
“She’s hands-down one of the best and smartest journalists I’ve ever worked with,” said [former Self magazine editor Sara] Austin, now a senior deputy editor at Cosmopolitan. “She did incredible work for us on very complicated investigations, dealing with people who had often been through illness or trauma or both.”
Lisa DePaulo, a former colleague of Erdely’s at Philadelphia Magazine and a writer at Bloomberg Politics, was incredulous about the attacks on Erdely’s reporting. “As far as I know, there’s never been a piece of hers that was sloppy,” she said. “She’s an absolute pro.”
DePaulo added that she hopes “the truth would emerge” and that it “would not drown out the voices of other victims.”
Neither Erdely nor Rolling Stone managing editor Will Dana responded to the Inquirer’s request for comment.
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