Who is Erin Overbey? New Yorker Journalist Fired After 'Gender Inequality' Complaint

The archive editor of The New Yorker claims she has been fired after raising gender inequality concerns and she publicly accusing the editor-in-chief of inserting errors into her articles and .

Erin Overbey announced her firing through a Twitter thread that she posted on Monday. The journalist made the announcement less than a week after she said she was subjected to a "performance review" for raising gender disparities concerns. Furthermore, she claimed that David Remnick, the New Yorker's editor-in-chief, inserted "factual errors" into her copy as a result of her review.

New Yorker Journalist Erin Overbey

In her thread on Monday, Overbey wrote, "The New Yorker is, in many ways, a wonderful institution. But it’s also ground zero for a kind of regressive literary gatekeeping, class exclusivity & old-school cultural thinking that simply no longer have any relation to, or frankly relevance in, the modern world as we know it.”

Last week, Overbey launched a 40-tweet thread about her "performance review," which she said followed an email she sent criticising gender inequalities at the magazine. A review of her weekly archive newsletter was initiated last month, during which the Condé Nast-owned magazine accused her of multiple factual inaccuracies.

Who is Erin Overbey?

Erin Overbey has been archive editor for The New Yorker since 1994 and has been working for nearly 28 years. She writes weekly readings for the publication that is published on Sunday as "Sunday Reading" and for "Double Take". She also writes for the New Yorker Classics newsletter.

She has reportedly spoken about the publication's lack of racial equality briefly in an article by the Washington Post that was published on the portal on 2021. As per her conclusion for which she has been collecting data since 2019 regarding The New Yorker's lack of diversity among journalists working for the publication.

According to her, nearly none of the 40,000 or more feature articles and reviews that the magazine had published over the years had been edited by a Black person, and only a small proportion of the total had been written by Black, Latina, and Asian American women. This is perhaps not surprising for a magazine with a history that dates back to 1925.

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