NY Mag places Olivia Nuzzi on leave over alleged RFK Jr. relationship

New York Magazine has placed Washington analogous Olivia Nuzzi connected permission aft she disclosed she had “engaged successful a idiosyncratic relationship” with idiosyncratic applicable to the 2024 statesmanlike campaign.

That person, according to aggregate reports, was Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the controversial Democrat-turned-Independent statesmanlike campaigner who pulled the plug connected his campaign astir a period agone and endorsed erstwhile President Donald Trump.

“Had the mag been alert of this relationship, she would not person continued to screen the statesmanlike campaign.” a institution spokesperson said successful a statement, noting their narration unfolded portion Nuzzi was reporting connected the campaign.

On Nov. 22, 2023 the mag published a portion by Nuzzi titled “The Mind-Bending Politics of RFK Jr.’s Spoiler Campaign.” A spokesperson for the erstwhile campaigner slammed the nonfiction arsenic a “hit piece,” according to media newsman Oliver Darcy, who was the first to study connected the alleged relationship.

While an interior reappraisal of the portion “found nary inaccuracies nor grounds of bias,” engaging successful a idiosyncratic narration with a “former subject” applicable to the run during the reporting process represents  “a usurpation of the magazine’s standards astir conflicts of involvement and disclosures.”

Nuzzi, 31, is 1 of the publication’s astir high-profile writers. The New York City autochthonal began her vocation successful journalism arsenic a teen successful 2011, penning for the triCitynews, a escaped alt-weekly newspaper distributed successful eastbound Monmouth County, N.J. She has besides written for the Daily Beast, Politico and The Washington Post.

In July 2013, portion inactive attending college, she wrote a portion for the Daily News describing her experiences portion volunteering for Anthony Weiner’s New York City sexting-plagued mayoral campaign.

The story, which made the paper’s beforehand page, was slammed by Weiner’s then-communications manager Barbara Morgan, who trashed the erstwhile intern successful a profanity-laden rant.

Nuzzi announced her engagement to Politico main Washington analogous Ryan Lizza successful 2022, but a Politico nonfiction astir the alleged matter indicates the brace are nary longer engaged.

Kennedy, 70, has been married to “Curb Your Enthusiasm” histrion Cheryl Hines since 2014.

Nuzzi is presently connected permission portion the mag conducts “a much thorough third-party review,” the spokesperson said. “We regret this usurpation of our readers’ trust.”