By Brandy Zadrozny
In the summer of 2015, Phoebe Barghouty was 23 years old and
had a new master’s degree in journalism from Stanford—but little other
experience—when she landed what most of her peers would consider a dream
job: associate producer at Vice’s Los Angeles bureau.
Though
her job hadn’t technically started yet, her boss, then-Editor in Chief
Jason Mojica, invited her to join the team at the L.A. Press Club
Awards. After accepting an award for public service in journalism, the
team from Vice—including Mojica and Kaj Larsen, the bureau chief who had
hired Barghouty—celebrated with drinks. By the end of the night,
Barghouty says a very drunk Larsen had brought up sex (musing about his
chances with a group of “black girls” at the bar), asked her for a ride
home, then passed out in her car.
“I had not even started work and he was being so inappropriate,” she remembers.
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Source: The Daily Beast
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