The Rolling Stone magazine writer whose article about allegations of a horrific gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity was retracted testified Friday in federal court that she believed the subject of her article was credible at the time, and she rebutted assertions that she did not reach out to key figures in the young woman’s story. For more than two hours Friday, the jury of eight women and two men listened to an interview journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely conducted in a Charlottesville restaurant in September 2014 with “Jackie,” the U-Va. student whose now-discredited accusations threw the campus and the nation into an uproar over sexual assault at colleges and universities.

October 21, 2016 ・ From The Washington Post