Mitchell Sunderland, who was fired from Vice Media’s women’s channel Broadly last fall over leaked emails to Breitbart uber-troll Milo Yiannopoulos, made a splashy return to journalism on Tuesday with a much-anticipated Penthouse profile of porn star Stormy Daniels.
The 6,000-plus-word piece is Sunderland’s first published work since being terminated from Vice back in October 2017 over emails in which, among other things, he asked Yiannopoulos to “mock” “fat feminist” Lindy West.
Penthouse executive editor Mish Barber-Way defended the decision to hire Sunderland for the assignment, noting that she had worked with Sunderland for six years, including as a freelance columnist at Broadly.