PLOS Chief Executive Officer Elizabeth Marincola is stepping down effective December 31, 2016, the open-access publisher announced on Twitter yesterday (October 31). She has accepted a position at an organization in Nairobi, Kenya, PLOS spokesperson David Knutson told The Scientist. “PLOS is going to miss her and all the contributions she gave to PLOS both as a board member and a CEO, and we wish her well,” he said.
The publisher announced Marincola’s upcoming departure following a leak of the information in an anonymous email sent to recipients including journalist Richard Poynder. “We did some investigating yesterday,” said Knutson. “We found that there was a forged message from an IP address in Amsterdam.”
PLOS found that the message was sent using an anonymous email tool hosted on a website registered in the Czech Republic. “Apparently people can use this tool and send out anonymous messages, and that’s what someone did,” ...
