Rolling Stone managing editor exiting magazine

Will Dana, the managing editor of Rolling Stone, will leave the magazine, just months after a controversial article about a supposed gang rape at the University of Virginia was retracted.

According to the New York Times, his last day is Aug. 7. He is not leaving for another job and a successor has not been named.

“After 19 years at Rolling Stone, I have decided that it is time to move on," Dana said in a statement.

Asked whether Dana's departure was linked to the controversy over the discredited article, Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner said, via a spokeswoman, that “many factors go into a decision like this.”

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