In a Monday morning massacre, Newsweek fired Editor-in-Chief Bob Roe, Executive Editor Ken Li and investigative reporter Celeste Katz, The Post has learned.
All three were working on a story about the news site’s parent company and its possible financial ties to Olivet University, a fundamentalist Christian college founded by the controversial Korean-American pastor Rev. David Jang.
Hours after the shocking dismissals, the parent company, Newsweek Media Group, appointed Nancy Cooper, the managing editor of sister title International Business Times, as acting editor of Newsweek.
In the Cooper announcement, NMG did not mention the firings — noting only that Roe and Li would be leaving the publication “immediately.”
Newsweek has been in a gathering cloud of controversy, especially since Jan. 18, when dozens of investigators from the Manhattan District Attorney’s office raided the site’s Lower Manhattan offices — and left hours later with 18 computer servers.
The DA, in the midst of a 18-month probe of NMG, is said to be focusing on its financial ties to Olivet.
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