The New Yorker just fired Ryan Lizza after allegations of sexual misconduct. He says the magazine made a 'terrible mistake.'

Ryan Lizza.
(Image credit: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The New Yorker)

The New Yorker announced Monday in a statement that it would no longer be working with reporter Ryan Lizza, due to potentially inappropriate behavior:

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Kelly O'Meara Morales

Kelly O'Meara Morales is a staff writer at The Week. He graduated from Sarah Lawrence College and studied Middle Eastern history and nonfiction writing amongst other esoteric subjects. When not compulsively checking Twitter, he writes and records music, subsists on tacos, and watches basketball.