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Last Friday Columbia Journalism School dismissed Sewell Chan, the editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, following complaints from his staff of abusive and threatening behavior.

We ran a story by Ravi, who worked there for part of his tenure, detailing his own strange experiences with Chan. And we meant to leave it there. But then we got a flood of messages and calls, and have since found some eyebrow-raising new allegations.

Plus tonight the turmoil at 60 Minutes — and the leading contender to replace Bill Owens -- which also takes in Shari Redstone, David Ellison, Wendy McMahon, Susan Zirinsky, Anderson Cooper, Bill Whitaker, Lesley Stahl and Scott Pelley.

And the latest on the hunt for a new editor of Vanity Fair including details of the editor who recently interviewed for the job once held by Graydon Carter, Tina Brown and Radhika Jones.

New details emerge around CJR firing

(Exclusive.) Since we ran this story, Sewell Chan, the now-former editor of CJR, posted a statement denying any wrongdoing. It said that three perfectly ordinary interactions with members of his staff were mischaracterized, blames Columbia, which he implies has an over-sensitive culture, suggests that he has never encountered such difficulties before and that old-fashioned editorial rigor was being misinterpreted. It prompted an outpouring of sympathy for Chan — from Senator Ted Cruz among others.

But we also received several messages from former colleagues of Chan at the Los Angeles Times and New York Times saying that they had similar experiences of hostility and strange behavior.

And we have reviewed an incendiary CJR document that presents in one place the multiple disparate allegations…

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