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Veteran reporter resigns amid Newsweek upheaval

By
Keith J. Kelly
Published Feb. 6, 2018, 10:27 a.m. ET

Veteran journalist Matt Cooper, a throwback to Newsweek’s glory days when it was still owned by Katharine Graham and the Washington Post Co., resigned from the troubled publication in a letter to the current chief executive on Monday.

His resignation came amid renewed turmoil at Newsweek, which has published an online version and a limited newsstand edition ever since Newsweek Media Group (formerly IBT Media) purchased it from previous owner IAC/Interactive Corp. in 2014.

Cooper, who worked for Newsweek in the 1990s, was rehired shortly after the acquisition.

In the intervening years, he became a star at rival Time when he was held in contempt of court and threatened with imprisonment for refusing to disclose sources to the grand jury investigating the Valerie Plame CIA leak.

His resignation letter to Newsweek Media Group CEO Dev Pragad contains a blistering attack on the ownership, which on Monday fired Editor-in-Chief Bob Roe, Executive Editor Ken Li and at least one investigative reporter, Celeste Katz.

A second and third reporter initially believed to have been fired were apparently spared late Monday.

The publication has been in turmoil since the Manhattan district attorney raided its offices on Jan. 18 in a probe of the company’s finances.

Last week Newsweek suspended its chief content officer over sexual harassment allegations in a previous job.

Cooper’s letter to Pragad states:

I’m resigning from Newsweek at the end of business today, February 5, although perhaps that’s moot since the staff has been sent home and the magazine, for all we know, doesn’t exist.
While I haven’t always agreed with Bob Roe and Ken Li during their tenures leading the magazine, their efforts to pursue the scandals at Newsweek were admirable and their reported firing (along with two reporters) is a disgrace. This coup d’grace comes at the end of a string of scandals and missteps during your tenure. Leaving aside the police raid and harassment scandal — a dependent clause I never thought I would write — it’s the installation of editors, not Li and Roe, who recklessly sought clicks at the expense of accuracy, retweets over fairness, that leaves me most despondent not only for Newsweek but for other publications that don’t heed the lessons of this publication’s fall.
I’ve been a journalist for over 30 years, including as a correspondent for Newsweek in the 1990s and since 2014. I’ve never seen more reckless leadership. I’ve tried to do what I could to help right the ship since the unjust firing of Editor Jim Impoco in 2017 but the situation has become untenable.