Elizabeth Thorp Talks Life After Capitol File
"I told her I wasn’t ready [for the job] out of loyalty to this magazine, and then I go in and I’m terminated."
Elizabeth Thorp‘s ouster last November as editor in chief of luxury mag Capitol File was swift, sudden and surprising, for herself as well as her staff.
But she’s been over it for a while, according to an interview with Washington Life executive editor Virginia Coyne in the magazine’s September issue. In fact, Thorp had been offered her current position, as the editorial head of startup PYPO, a site she describes as a “women-owned, women-focused Funny or Die mixed with Vice,” while she was still at Capitol File–just barely, as it turned out:
I interviewed Stephanie [Laing, PYPO’s founder] for a story a couple of years ago and she and I really hit it off.
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