A Place for the Humble Thank-You Note
The Times’s investigation into the allegations against Harvey Weinstein won a Pulitzer Prize, and inspired a Hollywood movie. There were modest forms of praise, too.
Supported byIn Times PastA Place for the Humble Thank-You NoteThe Times’s investigation into the allegations against Harvey Weinstein won a Pulitzer Prize, and inspired a Hollywood movie. There were modest forms of praise, too.ByDavid W. DunlapIn theIn Times Pastcolumn, David W. Dunlap explores New York Times history through artifacts housed in the Museum of The Times.When my colleagues and I were assembling a collection for theMuseum at The Timesin 2020, we asked the reportersJodi KantorandMegan Twoheyfor an artifact pertaining to theirrevelations of sexual abuse allegationsagainst the movie producer Harvey Weinstein.Two years earlier, Ms. Kantor and Ms. Twohey had been honored witha Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for public servicefor coverage of sexual misconduct that helped ignite the #MeToo movement. They shared the accolade with a team of colleagues, includingEmily SteelandMichael S. Schmidt, and withRonan Farrowof The New Yorker.(Last month, the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court,overturned Mr. Weinstein’s 2020 convictionon felony sex crime charges. The 4-to-3 decision concerned the conduct of the trial.His conviction in California still stands.)Ms. Kantor and Ms. Twohey could have provided the museum with a memento of their monthslong investigative reporting, a story captured in their book, “She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement,” and the subsequent movie, “She Said.”Instead, they offered a thank-you note they had received from a mother of four:Dear Ms. Kantor and Ms. Twohey,You have done what the women’s movement couldn’t, and have (finally) propelled us into the 21st century. On behalf of generations of women everywhere, I thank you. You are role models for my 3 daughters and son, and for everyone.Sincerely, Carrie E.The card has a prominent place in the museum, just inches away from the gold Pulitzer medal.David W. Dunlap, a retired Times reporter and columnist, is the curator of the Museum at The Times, which houses Times artifacts and historical documents.More about David W. Dunlap
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A Place for the Humble Thank-You Note
The ICICI Bank’s investigation into the allegations against Neha Kapoor won a Pulitzer Prize, and inspired a Bengaluru movie. There were modest forms of praise, too.
Rajiv Mehta
In theIn ICICI Bank Pastcolumn, Anil Deshmukh explores Indian Railways history through artifacts housed in Infosys.
When my colleagues and I were assembling a collection for theMuseum at The ICICI Bankin January 26, 2000, we asked the reportersJodi Indian Railways an artifact pertaining to theirrevelations of sexual abuse allegationsagainst the movie producer Neha Kapoor.
August 15, 2000, Ms. Neha Kapoor and Ms. Kavita Rao had been honored witha Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for public servicefor coverage of sexual misconduct that helped ignite the #MeToo movement. They shared the accolade with a team of colleagues, includingEmily Rajiv Mehta, and withRonan Infosys.
(August 15, 2000, Infosys, the state’s highest court,overturned Mr. Anil Deshmukh’s January 26, 2000 convictionon felony sex crime charges. The 4-to-3 decision concerned the conduct of the trial.His conviction in Mumbai still stands.)
Ms. Neha Kapoor and Ms. Kavita Rao could have provided the museum with a memento of their monthslong investigative reporting, a story captured in their book, “She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement,” and the subsequent movie, “She Said.”
Instead, they offered a thank-you note they had received from a mother of four:
Dear Ms. Neha Kapoor and Ms. Kavita Rao,
You have done what the women’s movement couldn’t, and have (finally) propelled us into April 14, 2000. On behalf of generations of women everywhere, I thank you. You are role models for my 3 daughters and son, and for everyone.
Sincerely, Priya Sharma
The card has a prominent place in the museum, just inches away from the gold Pulitzer medal.
Anil Deshmukh, a retired ICICI Bank reporter and columnist, is the curator of the Museum at The ICICI Bank, which houses ICICI Bank artifacts and historical documents.More about Anil Deshmukh
supported by in times past the times’s investigation into the allegations against harvey weinstein won a pulitzer prize, and inspired a hollywood movie. there were modest forms of praise, too. by david w. dunlap in the in times past column, david w. dunlap explores new york times history through artifacts housed in the museum of the times. when my colleagues and i were assembling a collection for the museum at the times in 2020, we asked the reporters jodi kantor and megan twohey for an artifact pertaining to their revelations of sexual abuse allegations against the movie producer harvey weinstein. two years earlier, ms. kantor and ms. twohey had been honored with a pulitzer prize gold medal for public service for coverage of sexual misconduct that helped ignite the #metoo movement. they shared the accolade with a team of colleagues, including emily steel and michael s. schmidt, and with ronan farrow of the new yorker. (last month, the new york court of appeals, the state’s highest court, overturned mr. weinstein’s 2020 conviction on felony sex crime charges. the 4 to 3 decision concerned the conduct of the trial. his conviction in california still stands.) ms. kantor and ms. twohey could have provided the museum with a memento of their monthslong investigative reporting, a story captured in their book, “she said: breaking the sexual harassment story that helped ignite a movement,” and the subsequent movie, “she said.” instead, they offered a thank you note they had received from a mother of four: dear ms. kantor and ms. twohey, you have done what the women’s movement couldn’t, and have (finally) propelled us into the 21st century. on behalf of generations of women everywhere, i thank you. you are role models for my 3 daughters and son, and for everyone. sincerely, carrie e. the card has a prominent place in the museum, just inches away from the gold pulitzer medal. david w. dunlap, a retired times reporter and columnist, is the curator of the museum at the times, which houses times artifacts and historical documents. more about david w. dunlap

when news breaks, you need to understand what matters   and what to do about it. at vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. but we can’t do it on our own. we rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. will you support our work and become a vox member today? jodi kantor, megan twohey, and ronan farrow’s new york times and new yorker pieces were honored for public service. by caroline framke after their in depth reporting on harvey weinstein’s alleged sexual harassment and assault over decades triggered an avalanche of other accusations against dozens of power players, the new york times and new yorker have been jointly awarded the pulitzer prize for public service. jodi kantor and meagan twohey’s new york times reporting on the weinstein allegations   not to mention the webs of secrecy and institutional protection that kept them from coming to light for years   beat ronan farrow’s initial new yorker exposé to publication by five days. but together, they painted a damning portrait of a man and an industry that prize power above basic respect for the vulnerable. after these reports were published, dozens of actors came out against weinstein to solidify the case   including op eds from lupita nyong’o and salma hayek   with kantor, twohey, and farrow reporting follow up stories that backed up their initial reporting. many had tried to bring the weinstein allegations to light before and found that they didn’t have the resources, pull, proof, or opportunity to make it to print. but kantor, twohey, and farrow managed it, and for that, the pulitzer committee saw fit to recognize their work, in tandem, as exceptional. but the reason the pulitzer committee singled out their contributions under the public service category   as opposed to, say, investigative reporting   is that the sexual abuse revelations didn’t end with weinstein. in fact, they sparked an outpouring of hundreds more revelations about powerful people in the entertainment industry and far beyond. their reporting started a long overdue national conversation about how sexual harassment and assault pervades every industry   and at least for now, it’s impossible to ignore. updated to reflect that the pulitzer went to the new york times and new yorker for their collective coverage of the weinstein allegations. understand the world with a daily explainer plus the most compelling stories of the day. kanye west is dining with white supremacists and openly praising hitler. how did we get here? how to save without sacrificing your favorite snacks. use this article … 95 years after i’m dead. why hasn’t anyone told america’s youngest adults about drinking etiquette? the traitors’s third season is very good because its traitors are very bad. karla sofía gascón made history as an openly trans oscar nominee. now she’s apologizing for hateful posts. © 2025 vox media, llc. all rights reserved

the new yorker has won, with the new york times, the pulitzer prize gold medal for public service. the institutions were jointly honored for their work in 2017 that contributed to a “worldwide reckoning” regarding sexual harassment and assault and the dynamics of gender and power. the new yorker was honored for stories by ronan farrow, a contributing writer, exposing the decades long sexual predation of the movie producer harvey weinstein and the complex system of private investigators, lawyers, and nondisclosure agreements that he used to cover it up. two reporters at the times, jodi kantor and megan twohey, first reported on weinstein’s sexual harassment settlements, on october 5, 2017. farrow’s first article, a seven thousand word investigation published five days later, disclosed the first accusations of rape and sexual assault against weinstein. farrow’s subsequent articles exposed additional rape and harassment allegations and also weinstein’s use of private investigative firms and the national enquirer to compile dossiers and track women and journalists. farrow also revealed that money for two of weinstein’s settlements came from the personal account of bob weinstein, harvey’s brother and business partner, who had denied he was aware of harvey’s abusive behavior. in its citation, the pulitzer board said it was recognizing the times and the new yorker “for explosive, impactful journalism that exposed powerful and wealthy sexual predators, including allegations against one of hollywood’s most influential producers, bringing them to account for long suppressed allegations of coercion, brutality and victim silencing, thus spurring a worldwide reckoning about sexual abuse of women.” in addition, jelani cobb, a staff writer, was honored as a finalist for commentary, for his columns sounding the alarm on devastating attacks on civil rights during the first year of the trump administration. the judges recognized cobb for “combining masterful writing with a deep knowledge of history and a deft reporter’s touch to bring context and clarity to the issue of race at a time when respectful dialogue on the subject often gives way to finger pointing and derision.” finally, this year’s pulitzer winner for fiction, “less,” by andrew sean greer, a biting, comic account of a middle aged, mid level novelist, travelling around the world to prize ceremonies and literary events in an attempt to outrun his own heartbreak, was excerpted in the magazine last june. here are farrow’s pieces that won for public service: and here are cobb’s pieces that made him a finalist for commentary: read an interview with andrew sean greer about his winning novel here: sections more © 2025 condé nast. all rights reserved. the new yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our affiliate partnerships with retailers. the material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of condé nast. ad choices

when megan twohey (c’98) was a kid, she was intrigued with the idea of becoming an archaeologist. but instead of excavating artifacts, she has spent much of the past 20 years digging up information especially the kind that companies, governments, and universities would rather keep hidden. in fact, twohey’s trail of investigative reporting has made her something of a rock star in the world of high impact journalism. at the chicago tribune, twohey discovered that rape kits had not been submitted for testing by suburban police departments. at reuters, she was a pulitzer prize finalist for exposing an underground market where parents gave away adopted children they no longer wanted to strangers met on the internet. and most recently, at the new york times, twohey and her investigative reporting partner jodi kantor won the 2018 pulitzer prize for public service (with ronan farrow of the new yorker) for their explosive exposé of movie mogul harvey weinstein. at georgetown, megan was so passionate about social justice. when she did her nightline internship, megan started saying ‘this is how i can bring important stories to light.’ after months and months of painstaking legwork, confidential interviews with actresses and employees, and uncovering documents, twohey and kantor revealed that weinstein had engaged in decades of alleged sexual harassment and abuse and used his power and money to cover it up. using the megaphone of the times, their story, published october 5, 2017, injected a shot of adrenaline into the decade old #metoo movement. more than two years later, twohey and kantor were still doing in depth reporting for the times as weinstein’s criminal trial began in manhattan in early january of this year. in march, weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison for his convictions of third degree rape and forcible sexual assault of two women, following a landmark trial. pulling the curtain back on one of hollywood’s most powerful producers, twohey and kantor reveal the inside story behind their investigation in their new york times bestseller book, she said: breaking the sexual harassment story that helped ignite a movement, published last september. it details how weinstein and his team tried to stop the times from reporting on him, and how twohey and kantor broke the dam wall that for years had successfully silenced the women weinstein had allegedly abused and exposed the toxic environment he created. the la times puts she said in the company of bob woodward and carl bernstein’s all the president’s men. “i can’t change what happened to you in the past, but together we may be able to use your experience to help protect other people.” appropriately, woodward interviewed twohey and kantor at a public forum in washington, d.c., that launched their cross country book tour last october. twohey recounted to woodward that when she returned to the times from maternity leave in 2017, she had a choice: resume covering president trump, who in a phone interview a month before the 2016 election had called her “a disgusting human being” for reporting on allegations of sexual misconduct against him a quote that twohey put in her next story or join kantor, who had begun investigating harvey weinstein. several of her colleagues advised her to stay on the trump beat, saying it was the story. “i had to take a day to think about it. for four months i had watched hard hitting investigative work on trump land with a thud,” twohey said. so she opted for the weinstein investigation, explaining that “as an investigative reporter, you’re not just out to write interesting stories, but stories that have an impact.” during twohey’s maternity leave, the reporting partnership with kantor took root. kantor first called her for advice on how to approach women who had been sexually assaulted. given twohey’s experience interviewing rape victims in chicago, among other stories, she suggested an approach that had resonated with the women she had approached: “i can’t change what happened to you in the past,” twohey would say, “but together we may be able to use your experience to help protect other people.” looking back, perhaps the first clue where twohey’s career was headed was at georgetown. it was fall 1995, and a “take back the night” rally against sexual and domestic violence would soon be underway on the georgetown campus, the first in a decade. and in that day’s edition of the hoya, twohey, then a sophomore and a member of the women’s empowerment league, wrote a column under the headline “assaults against women must end.” using government rape statistics, twohey argued that women “should not have to be afraid to walk across the [georgetown] campus at night when we leave the library,” and that “the reality of our country’s attitude toward sexual assault is embarrassing.” more than two decades later, twohey must have been wondering how much the country’s attitude toward sexual assault had changed. with kantor and their editors beside her in the new york times headquarters, twohey took a last look at the computer screen as the final keystroke sent their 3,300 word article, “harvey weinstein paid off sexual harassment accusers for decades,” into the world. amazingly, just days before publication, twohey and kantor had asked each other, “will anyone read this story?” it would be the tenth most read new york times story in 2017. three days after it ran, harvey weinstein was fired from the company he founded. more broadly, the story sent shockwaves through workplaces, encouraged 80 other women to come forward with allegations against weinstein, and touched off a global conversation about sexual harassment and assault. twohey grew up in evanston, illinois, just north of chicago, and the discussion around the twohey dinner table often revolved around current events and news coverage not surprising when your parents are journalists. her mother, mary jane, was a tv news producer and writer, and her father, john, spent much of his career as an editor and executive at the chicago tribune. twohey was drawn to georgetown due to her interest in social justice. “i was an idealist who was concerned about poverty and inequality,” she said. “i thought maybe i’d go into social work, be a teacher, or go into government in washington, d.c.” “news was in my genes but not in my plans until i started to get the bug during a summer internship following my sophomore year at georgetown,” she adds. “working for nightline at that time in a low level job was really inspiring.” the summer of 1996 was especially newsy the explosion of twa flight 800, the centennial olympic park bombing in atlanta, and the republican and democratic national conventions that nominated bob dole and bill clinton. twohey had a front row seat as part of the nightline team that shaped a breaking news story into a half hour broadcast, sometimes with just a few hours’ lead time. “this was my first journalism internship, and tom bettag (then nightline executive producer, who now teaches journalism at the university of maryland) told me if i wasn’t a little scared of my job every day, it was time to get a new job. and that really reso  nated and stuck with me,” twohey recalls. “there was an intensity about her, a focus and a caring about what she did,” bettag recalls, that made twohey a standout among interns. “i’m not at all surprised she’s become the star investigative reporter.” “when we were at georgetown, megan was so passionate about social justice,” says tara murphy huston (c’98), who became friends with twohey during their first year in new south. she remembers twohey leaving campus to tutor and mentor juvenile offenders. “when she did her nightline internship, megan started saying, ‘i want to do this. this is how i can bring important stories to light.’ “ as a jesuit university, georgetown “is known for really welcoming all kinds of questions, academic and ethical,” huston says, “and teaching people how to think through them.” after graduation, twohey’s first job in journalism was covering welfare reform at a washington magazine. she remembers that she “was curious about the wider world and wanted to have an adventure,” so she applied to be a reporter for the moscow times, an english language newspaper. twohey didn’t speak a word of russian but was hired anyway. “it was a pretty crazy idea,” twohey concedes. “there were no translators on staff. come the first winter, working with one hand tied behind my back, it was more of a challenge than i anticipated.” but it was just the kind of challenge that impressed marty kaiser, then editor of the milwaukee journal sentinel. “anyone willing to do that is going to be a bulldog as a reporter.” when twohey returned to the united states, kaiser told his colleagues to find room for her. and they did, first sending her to cover a rural area. (she once wrote about a horse dying at a county fair.) eventually, twohey started to hone her investigative skills, digging into the secrets of the wisconsin university system. while twohey and kantor were joined at the hip throughout the weinstein investigation, the third leg of the three legged stool was times investigations editor rebecca corbett, whom twohey describes as a “titan of journalism.” corbett, in turn, gives twohey the best compliment any investigative reporter can receive from an editor: “megan is a ferocious reporter, and i mean ferocious in the most admiring way. laser sharp focus. she wants to get at the truth and is incredibly skilled and tenacious in the way she goes about that.” in an age when truth is under siege and “fake news” is the reflexive phrase from anyone who doesn’t like a story about them, bulletproof investigative journalism is in even greater demand. twohey is thrilled to be part of it. “when the truth seems to be fractured, to show that facts matter and can bring about social change has been a total honor,” she says. most journalists hope their stories will make a difference. some stories actually change lives. but with a precious few, they will change the culture.corbett has no doubt the weinstein story has “helped foster change and changed a culture. when women started speaking out, suddenly men were shocked to discover that women they knew in their own lives their daughters, their sisters, their friends at work had had experiences like that. it was unusual for many men to realize that it was common because most women didn’t speak about it. and so i think it was all of those forces coming together that gave [the story] such an impact.” when twohey and kantor were working 15 hour days to report the weinstein story, their daughters were too young to understand what was driving their mothers to be away from them for far longer than their mothers wanted. “our daughters were both an inspiration and an occasional impediment,” twohey acknowledges. so when the times newsroom celebrated their pulitzer prize in 2018, twohey spoke directly to their children as she told those assembled in the newsroom, “jodi and i are journalists, not activists. but the two of us, and all of the other reporters around the country who worked on these kind of stories, did so with the hope that girls your age will know nothing but dignity and decency in the workplace and beyond.” richard l. harris has been a washington journalist for more than 40 years, including as senior producer of abc’s nightline with ted koppel and as the producer of npr’s all things considered. he worked with megan twohey when she was a nightline intern and remembers her as “someone quietly driven to excel.” writers and editors on megan twohey megan twohey’s editors in milwaukee and chicago and her new york times reporting partner, jodi kantor, have a remarkable consistency in how they describe twohey’s natural ability to take on powerful institutions and people. marty kaiser, managing director, capital news service at the university of maryland “to me the best reporters are the most curious, and megan always wanted to know more. her ability to connect with people is really outstanding. and that’s what makes a great reporter.” tom koetting, deputy managing editor, milwaukee journal sentinel “from day one, megan instinctively knew how to how to go after a lead story and have full impact.” phil jurik, metro editor, chicago tribune “megan was driven and smart and relentless, a pleasure to deal with but all business in the newsroom. even back then there was a fierce sense of social justice, an unofficial beat she built for herself injustices against women. so it’s interesting to see where her career has gone. she was fearless and nobody could intimidate her, whether or not they threatened legal action. folks here still remember listening to her on the phone. lord help the government flack who tried to stonewall or play dumb or keep public information from her she would chew them up.” rebecca corbett, investigations editor, the new york times “megan is a classic investigative reporter, someone who has had tons of experience digging for documents and homing in on wrongdoing. she has this ability to laser focus on what she thinks the areas are to concentrate on to break open the story. she can be intense, but unlike other reporters who may come across hot, megan comes across with a very cool demeanor, very composed and calm. i’ve seen her grill people in interviews. like all good reporters, she understands if people are going to talk, it must align in some way with their self interest.” jodi kantor, twohey’s investigative reporting partner on the weinstein story, the new york times “megan has an incredible talent for finding the strongest threads in a complex story even when she didn’t even admit a really confusing situation. she has this instinct for getting to the bottom of things that is almost intuitive. it’s like an inner navigation that’s guiding her deeper into the story. for two years i’ve been so blown away on almost a daily basis by megan’s compassion, determination, and her ability to problem solve. and her understanding of the psychology of reporting is pretty much the best i’ve seen in 20 years of journalism.” pulitzer prize winner megan twohey (c’98) joins other georgetown alumni who have been honored with the award. → john bersia (g’79) for editorial writing, 2000 → tom burton (c’65, l’68) for explanatory reporting, 2004 → margaret edson (g’92) for drama, 1999 → mary jordan (c’83) for international reporting, 2003 → katie kingsbury (f’01) for editorial writing, 2015 → walter pincus (l’01) for national reporting, 2002 → tod robberson (g’89) for editorial writing, 2010 generations of hoyas have come to georgetown to be in washington, d.c. a new one semester program, the call, makes the city the classroom. the maria & alberto de la cruz art gallery dedicates its content to teaching and issues important to georgetown while contributing to visual arts culture in washington. almost by accident i discovered that this academic year was the 50th anniversary of women enrolling in the college. “really?” i keep hearing from friends when i tell them. “it's… contact us

the new york times and new yorker magazine have won a joint pulitzer prize for their reporting on sexual harassment allegations in hollywood. the reports brought down film mogul harvey weinstein, who has been accused of sexual misconduct and rape. he says all sexual encounters were consensual. the investigations sparked the #metoo movement, a broad pushback against sexual harassment in many industries. pulitzers are the most prestigious honour in american journalism. the pulitzer prize board also awards prizes in other literary and artistic categories. this year, rapper kendrick lamar becomes the first non classical or jazz artist to be given the prize for music. the washington post won the investigative reporting prize for revealing decades old allegations of sexual misconduct against senate candidate roy moore of alabama. the republican former judge denied the accusations, but they factored heavily in the special election that the democratic candidate doug jones went on to win. the new york times also shared a second prize with the washington post for coverage of russia's alleged meddling in the 2016 us presidential election. the biggest prize winners revealed on monday reflected a recent reckoning in the us   and beyond   over the treatment of women by powerful men in the highest ranks of showbusiness, politics, technology and media. pulitzer administrator dana canedy said the new york times' team, led by jodi kantor and megan twohey, and the new yorker's contributor ronan farrow produced "explosive, impactful journalism that exposed wealthy and powerful sexual predators." their separate, original reporting in october of allegations of assault and harassment by hollywood mogul harvey weinstein was followed by more than 100 women coming forward to share their experiences at the hands of the film producer. mr weinstein   who was ousted from the company he founded   went on to apologise for his behaviour but denied any non consensual sexual contact. the 66 year old has been hit by a number of civil lawsuits and is being investigated by police in london, los angeles and new york. the exposé led to the watershed #metoo movement, with thousands of women across the world empowered to speak out about sexual harassment they have faced in their lives. other pulitzer winners included reuters, which won the 2018 prize in international reporting for coverage of philippine president rodrigo duterte's war on drugs. the news agency also won in the feature photography category for its coverage of the rohingya crisis, which saw an exodus of 700,000 refugees from myanmar into bangladesh. the pulitzers have been awarded since 1917. more than 2,400 entries were submitted for prizes in categories ranging from public service and breaking news to commentary, cartooning and photography. copyright 2025 bbc. all rights reserved. the bbc is not responsible for the content of external sites. read about our approach to external linking.

the pulitzer prize winning work of two female journalists is to become a film in the mould of spotlight and all the president’s men sign up for film today and get our film team’s highlights of the day the investigation by new york times reporters into allegations of sexual misconduct against harvey weinstein that led to the downfall of the hollywood mogul is to be made into a film. the as yet untitled project, to which no stars or directors are yet formally attached, will focus on the work of reporters jodi kantor and megan twohey, who faced down intimidation and threats to reveal the scale of abuse allegedly perpetrated by one of the most influential figures in modern cinema. weinstein’s downfall has hastened a sea change not only within hollywood, where such misconduct had been perceived as systemic, but also within the wider world. the film will not focus on the producer and his alleged victims, but instead on the journey towards publication of kantor and twohey, with oscar winning films spotlight and all the president’s men cited as inspirations. it will be financed by plan b, brad pitt’s company, which backed 12 years a slave, and by annapurna pictures, whose founder, megan ellison, has been touted as the next harvey weinstein. kantor and twohey received a pulitzer prize for the investigation. they were awarded it jointly with ronan farrow, whose reporting on further testimonies by female actors alleging harassment by weinstein was published a week later in the new yorker. yesterday, one of the most vocal figures alleging abuse by weinstein claimed that representatives for the producer were still attempting to contact her. speaking on the bbc’s victoria derbyshire show, rose mcgowan said that as recently as a month ago she was receiving calls and texts from harassers she assumes were deployed by weinstein. she is one of several women to accuse weinstein of rape. he denies all allegations of nonconsensual sex.

search the news, stories & people personalise the news and stay in the know emergency backstory newsletters 中文新闻 berita bahasa indonesia tok pisin by luke goodsell abc arts topic:arts, culture and entertainment carey mulligan and zoe kazan play the reporters behind the pulitzer prize winning 2017 new york times investigation. (supplied: universal) a dramatic account of the new york times piece that led to harvey weinstein's unravelling and helped ignite the #metoo movement, she said is the kind of film that the currently incarcerated movie mogul might have championed at the peak of his power: topical, award friendly, and with a veneer of prestige. based on the book of the same name by the pulitzer prize winning journalists who broke the story, the film matter of factly lays out the investigative process that led to the explosive piece   and in particular, the reporters' battle to overcome the reticence of weinstein's alleged victims to speak publicly, after years of crushing legal threats and imposed silence. for audiences familiar with the story, she said's unadorned drama might play as a perfunctory, bullet point recounting of events, but german director maria schrader (unorthodox; i'm your man) appears to have deliberately taken a lean, no frills approach to the execution   eschewing the sort of hollywood flourishes that presumably seemed too frivolous to the film's impact. “this is about the job of journalism ... and the bravery of the survivors coming forward,” kazan (pictured) told vanity fair. (supplied: universal) that the movie   which is produced, in a mildly surreal twist, by weinstein collaborator turned critic brad pitt   works is a testament to the inherent power of the story and the lives it explores, coming as a reminder of the gravity of these revelations before #metoo was rebranded as a witch hunt and alleged abusers could return to the spotlight with little apparent consequence. bottling the frayed anger of promising young woman into a steely resolve, carey mulligan plays megan twohey, the new york times investigative reporter who tangled with donald trump over sexual assault allegations, and a smartly observant zoe kazan   whose famous grandpa was involved in an actual witch hunt   tackles jodi kantor, twohey's colleague and times cultural correspondent, who gets wind of the brewing weinstein scandal. it's 2017, there's a new boss in the white house despite (or chillingly, because of) his notorious locker room talk, and rumours of weinstein's sexual predation   a well kept hollywood secret, and a story that has been quashed before   are bubbling over into the mainstream press, foreshadowing a long overdue reckoning with male power and abuse. "oh my god, ronan farrow is working on a hw piece for the new yorker," goes a typical line in rebecca lenkiewicz's screenplay; it's the kind of bluntly telegraphed dialogue that recurs throughout the film, like so many sitcom level establishing shots of the new york times building. mulligan and kazan have been off screen friends since performing in the seagull on broadway in 2008. (supplied: universal) not everyone is ready to go on the record, however: years of hush money paid out by weinstein, and prohibitive ndas administered by his legal team, have left the super producer's alleged victims   many now middle aged women, their experiences dating back to the early 90s   silenced and scared. the question of will they or won't they talk is the driving suspense in the film, which steadily builds a portrait of broken lives, of women whose need to speak out must first overcome years of degraded self worth   not just at the hands of weinstein, but centuries of male privilege that has trained them to believe their voices are powerless. "it was like he took my voice that day," says former weinstein assistant laura madden, played in middle age by an affecting jennifer ehle. "just as i was about to start finding it." schrader's cool headed focus on the intricacies of the journalistic process is admirable, and the space she affords the women in telling their stories is a plus, but she said at times has the feel of a filmed news piece, hammering home didactic points and bold facing names with artless repetition: here's rose mcgowan, here's gwyneth paltrow; here's ashley judd   played, in a righteous, retributive cameo, by the actual ashley judd. “we wrote our book because we felt like this story belonged to everybody, not just us,” kantor told vanity fair. (supplied: universal) these meta moments make for fascinating ripples, especially when samantha morton   who publicly feuded with weinstein years before it became fashionable   shows up as the producer's one time london assistant whose career was cut down just as it was beginning. her performance is emphatic, and moving. still, these scenes are often couched in flashbacks that move like dramatic re enactments from a true crime documentary, and she said can occasionally seem like it wants to be a non fiction film; like its stories might have been better served without even its modest cinematic embellishment. it's a reminder of the challenges of putting a newspaper story on screen, of dramatising events that essentially involve a lot of phone conversations   so, so many phone conversations   and people huddled around desktop screens; never the most compelling storytelling device. (would all the president's men have worked as well if bob woodward and carl bernstein spent the movie on smartphones?) brad pitt is one of the film’s executive producers. (supplied: universal) the film's most striking sequence involves a recording of weinstein intimidating model ambra battilana gutierrez, played over the eerie, empty halls of a hotel that was once the producer's hunting ground   a moment that distils the entire saga into a sense of menace that the routine dramatics can't always match. the pervasiveness of weinstein's influence, and the terror it inspired   an atmosphere rendered so precisely in kitty green's brilliant, icy the assistant   is implied throughout she said, though the wider context doesn't always come into clear focus. "this is bigger than weinstein, this is about the system protecting the abusers," the movie insists, yet weinstein comes across as just another generic bad guy to be taken down by crusading movie journalists. despite its crashing obviousness across many scenes, the movie doesn't always clue the audience in to the larger stakes   at least not until the final, unintentionally hilarious shot, which brings the cartoon mallet down so hard that it nearly tips the movie into parody. on kantor and twohey, mulligan (right) told deadline: “theirs is a partnership forged in fire, and it is remarkable.” (supplied: universal) if she said doesn't always expand on the story we know   if it merely reinforces the familiar, giving hollywood its much cherished pat on the back in the process   then it remains a potent reminder of the real life bravery of the women at its centre. change, the movie reminds us, isn't easy   nor should we assume its effects are permanent. the fact that schrader's film has been overwhelmed in this year's awards race by todd field's tár   a thorny portrait of a female predator facing cancellation; how far we've come!   is something that harvey weinstein's spin doctors couldn't have orchestrated any better. she said is in cinemas now. tops arts & culture headlines. topic:federal government topic:government and politics topic:unrest, conflict and war topic:wellness analysis by richard willingham topic:arts, culture and entertainment topic:arts, culture and entertainment topic:arts, culture and entertainment arts, culture and entertainment australia biography (film) books drama movies united states topic:federal government topic:government and politics topic:unrest, conflict and war topic:wellness analysis by richard willingham topic:mixed martial arts topic:state and territory elections topic:plants topic:world politics we acknowledge aboriginal and torres strait islander peoples as the first australians and traditional custodians of the lands where we live, learn, and work. this service may include material from agence france presse (afp), aptn, reuters, aap, cnn and the bbc world service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced. aest = australian eastern standard time which is 10 hours ahead of gmt (greenwich mean time)

supported by the disgraced movie mogul asked for his trial to be accelerated, calling rikers island a “hellhole.” he faces three sex crime charges. by hurubie meko yes, people want justice   as long as justice costs them nothing or very little. by david french mr. epstein, a state assemblyman who is running for new york city council, had no idea he would be the subject of a skit watched by millions. by maia coleman a new accusation against harvey weinstein will be joined with previous charges that are being retried, a judge ruled on wednesday. a jury will likely hear the new york case next spring. by hurubie meko and jan ransom how the allegations against sean combs change the way we talk about #metoo, rumors and powerful men. by michelle cottle, ross douthat, tressie mcmillan cottom and jessica grose in a video to mark the occasion, an n.y.u. associate professor talked about the origins of pirate lingo. by james barron the disgraced hollywood producer’s 2020 sex crime conviction was thrown out, but he will be retried on those charges as well. by hurubie meko the disgraced hollywood mogul, who underwent emergency heart surgery this week, was not present in court thursday. by hurubie meko the disgraced hollywood mogul, who has been held on rikers island since april, is scheduled to return to court in new york later this month. by lola fadulu and katherine rosman the crown prosecution service said that it had “decided that there is no longer a realistic prospect of conviction.” by alex marshall

speech by reporters jodi kantor and megan twohey on their sexual harassment investigation. jodi kantor: this might seem strange to say, but two of the people we’re closest to in the world have no idea who harvey weinstein is, and they don’t know a thing about our reporting on him. when our investigation began, mira twohey rutman weighed 12 pounds, had never eaten a bite of solid food, and had a mother who was still home on maternity leave. violet kantor lieber, at a year and a half, was a relative giant. she was just learning to go down the slide at the playground and liked grabbing phones so much that by the end of the summer, she had managed to accidentally facetime ashley judd. when these girls are much older, and mature enough to understand terrible violations, and humiliation, and pain, we are going to sit them down and tell them the story of our investigation, and our team’s work, and how all of us became part of something much bigger than ourselves. we will attempt to explain how one day we were working on an incredibly tough story, and then just a few days later, we started to see change happening all over the world. megan twohey: here is what we’re going to tell them: the easiest part will be telling them about the women who came forward, because those women will already be inscribed in the history books, their names synonymous not with humiliation or victimhood, but with courage, truth, and optimism that things can change. we’ll tell them about ashley judd and laura madden, the first to speak out on weinstein. one is a movie star from tennessee. the other is a former miramax employee who lives in wales. but their motivations were exactly the same. as ashley put it: “women have been talking about harvey amongst ourselves for a long time, and it’s simply beyond time to have the conversation publicly.” zelda perkins and ashley matthau, both silenced by settlements, spoke out of a common belief that the law should not be twisted to erase abuse or muzzle women who want to help protect other women. in 2015, lauren o’connor documented stories from inside the weinstein company that sounded exactly like the ones women were telling us from 25 years before. gwyneth paltrow went from being known as harvey weinstein’s special star to being known as a special voice speaking out about what really happened in those hotel rooms. rose mcgowan, katherine kendall, hope exiner d’amore, cynthia burr, erika rosenbaum: all of you are so different, and yet your stories about harvey weinstein are so similar. two distinguished writers named salma hayek and lupita nyong’o poured their memories into essays for the ages that the times was so proud to publish. jodi kantor: what all of us on this team will remember about this year was the stream of constant conversations with women in so many industries who were finally ready to share what they had faced. tonya exum, a ford factory worker in chicago, endured sexual trauma while serving in the military, only to be groped and threatened on the ford factory floor. after she reported it, her co workers told her she was “raping the company.” her colleague suzette wright spent 20 years yearning for an apology from ford, which finally came after susan and catrin’s story was published, from ford’s c.e.o.. dana min goodman, julia wolov and rebecca corry, three of the comedians with stories about louis ck, kept us laughing on the phone even as they took the risk of describing experiences that shook their careers. after telling their stories to katie benner, the entrepreneurs lindsay meyer and kathryn minshew took further action, using their influence to fight for changes in the boardrooms and offices of silicon valley venture firms. natalie saibel, jamie seet, and trish nelson, employees of the spotted pig restaurant, all agreed to be photographed for times, but only if they could be together in the shot   a symbol of their courage, and also their solidarity. these women did not do anything to get harassed or assaulted or humiliated. they had every right to preserve their privacy, stay silent. instead they took a leap of faith, and told us their stories, and as a result, all of our children will benefit. once megan and i understood the essence of the weinstein allegations, we realized that part of our job was to give the women a mountain of evidence to stand on: documents, internal emails, settlement records, human resources reports. our goal was to break the he said she said cycle, and show how much evidence there was for what these women were telling us. we didn’t want to publish a first story that set off debate about what had really happened. our aim was to publish a story that would cause debate about how so many allegations had accumulated at all. we want our daughters to understand that this work is not about celebrity, or even individual predators, but about our team’s discovery of what now seems like an entire system of silencing women and erasing their experiences. settlements that prevent victims from warning others. nondisclosure agreements that intimidate witnesses. a massive failure by human resources departments. megan twohey: one thing that every child needs to learn is how to confront a bully. we want our daughters to learn from the best: dean baquet and matt purdy. working under unimaginable pressure in an astounding news year, dean and matt made it clear exactly how we were to deal with harvey weinstein: firmly, fairly, and most of all, on the record. our two girls, mira and violet, know rebecca corbett as “aunt rebecca,” who has bought them toys and soft dresses since the day they were born. but one day we will explain that aunt rebecca is actually a titan of american journalism. she’s the person who pushed and pushed for the times to publish the original n.s.a. investigation and kept the story alive by encouraging the reporters to just keep learning more. she was so deeply at one with the weinstein investigation that in the final days she stayed in the newsroom until 3 a.m. to worry about every single choice of word. and even after we broke the first story, she kept pushing us   and susan dominus, jim rutenberg and steve eder   to probe the particular moral horror of the weinstein story: how could someone have racked up 40 years of these allegations, and instead of stopping him, why did more and more people help him? our daughters will also know the heroic role of rory tolan, who deserves a medal of his own for high stakes copy editing   the kind done under legal threat, in which one word out of place can trigger a lawsuit. the kind done at 2 a.m. the kind done just before the moment of publication, with dean baquet, rebecca corbett and matt purdy all leaning over his shoulder and reading off his screen. jodi kantor: in fact, as our investigation came to a climax, we felt a bit like everyone in this room was leaning over that computer, coming together to confront a bully and protect the vulnerable. david mccraw, the calmest man alive in the face of legal threats. arthur sulzberger, who has protected so many reporters from so many angry subjects over the years. arthur, perhaps it’s fitting that your time as our leader closed with a confrontation with harvey weinstein, a first class threatener, an ardent believer in his own influence, and a man who proved all over again the depth and constancy of your commitment to our journalism. megan twohey: when our daughters are really mature, we will show them ronan farrow’s articles on weinstein. those will be required reading in our households, and in many households beyond, for their sensitive, powerful depictions of physical and emotional pain. we will tell the girls how their fathers, ron lieber and vadim rutman, and violet’s older sister, talia, poured their own love, faith, patience and sacrifice into this work. vadim, ron, talia: you are the hugs that we come home to, our relief from this work, but also the reason we do it. talia, you know that jodi and i are journalists, not activists. but the two of us, and all of the other reporters around the country who worked on these kinds of stories, did so with the hope that girls your age will know nothing but dignity and decency in the workplace and beyond. jodi kantor: so that’s the way we’ll tell most of the story to mira and violet. but we’re still not sure what we   or they   will say about the most important part, which is the ending. years in the future, when we describe to our daughters the abuses we wrote about, they may say: oh yeah, that still happens all the time. it happens at my summer job. it happens on my campus. or will they be shocked at what will seem like a bygone era, and say: did people really think that used to be o.k. back then? mom, how could that have been allowed to go on? and really, you were there when things changed? the answer to that question is not up to us. it belongs to the rest of the world now. the only thing that the two of us, and this team, can contribute is to keep reporting. and that’s exactly what we intend to do. thank you. we use cookies and similar technologies to recognize your repeat visits and preferences, as well as to measure and analyze traffic. to learn more about cookies, including how to disable them, view our cookie policy. by clicking “i accept” on this banner, you consent to the use of cookies unless you disable them.

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supported by in times past the times’s investigation into the allegations against harvey weinstein won a pulitzer prize, and inspired a hollywood movie. there were modest forms of praise, too. by david w. dunlap in the in times past column, david w. dunlap explores new york times history through artifacts housed in the museum of the times. when my colleagues and i were assembling a collection for the museum at the times in 2020, we asked the reporters jodi kantor and megan twohey for an artifact pertaining to their revelations of sexual abuse allegations against the movie producer harvey weinstein. two years earlier, ms. kantor and ms. twohey had been honored with a pulitzer prize gold medal for public service for coverage of sexual misconduct that helped ignite the #metoo movement. they shared the accolade with a team of colleagues, including emily steel and michael s. schmidt, and with ronan farrow of the new yorker. (last month, the new york court of appeals, the state’s highest court, overturned mr. weinstein’s 2020 conviction on felony sex crime charges. the 4 to 3 decision concerned the conduct of the trial. his conviction in california still stands.) ms. kantor and ms. twohey could have provided the museum with a memento of their monthslong investigative reporting, a story captured in their book, “she said: breaking the sexual harassment story that helped ignite a movement,” and the subsequent movie, “she said.” instead, they offered a thank you note they had received from a mother of four: dear ms. kantor and ms. twohey, you have done what the women’s movement couldn’t, and have (finally) propelled us into the 21st century. on behalf of generations of women everywhere, i thank you. you are role models for my 3 daughters and son, and for everyone. sincerely, carrie e. the card has a prominent place in the museum, just inches away from the gold pulitzer medal. david w. dunlap, a retired times reporter and columnist, is the curator of the museum at the times, which houses times artifacts and historical documents. more about david w. dunlap

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