The New Yorker magazine suspended veteran editor Jeffrey Tobin after inadvertently exposing himself during a virtual call to staff on the Zoom messaging platform last week.
A Washington Post spokesman said that "Jeffrey Tobin has been suspended while investigating the case." Vice.com first reported on the suspension Monday afternoon.
The magazine, which has employed Tobin since 1993, did not comment further on the nature of the incident or the length of the suspension.
He will be absent from his longtime television home, CNN, which hired him as chief legal analyst in the middle of the incident.
"A spokesperson for CNN said," Jeff Tobin said for some time when dealing with a personal issue, which we have provided him with.
Tobin has been omnipresent online as a commentator on legal disputes and the Trump administration. A prolific author, Tobin's latest book is "a real-life legal thriller about prosecutors and Congressional investigators pursuing the truth about Donald Trump's complicity in multiple crimes and why they failed."
Toobin, who could not be immediately reached for comment, Vice.com said in a statement that it "made an embarrassingly silly mistake" during the zoom call.
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