They showed that there could be accountability and impact. The Bill O’Reilly and Silicon Valley stories meant a lot, because we could show successful examples of allegations being documented and people going on the record without apparent negative consequences. Were you able to point to the O’Reilly story as evidence that going public about Weinstein could have an impact? Another thing that was discouraging for people was that Cosby hasn’t faced criminal consequences for his alleged rapes. They’d note that Trump was elected anyway. Other people were very discouraged by it because they felt there was a lack of accountability. Some women felt that this is what I can contribute now to this moment in American history. Even though Trump went on to be elected, some of the women that she reported on still felt angered and empowered to come forward. There was a flare-up of public discussion around sexual assault and sexual harassment during the campaign with the “Access Hollywood” tape. Twohey: Emily Steel says that some of the women in the O’Reilly stories decided to speak out after Trump’s election. Did that motivate women to come forward about Weinstein? I know it seems like those were many sexual harassment stories ago, but at the time, they were really a light-bulb moment for the paper because they made us realize there may be a lot more buried truths here.ĭonald Trump was accused of multiple instances of sexual harassment and was caught on tape bragging about grabbing a woman’s private parts. Our colleagues Emily Steel and Mike Schmidt broke the Bill O’Reilly story, and our colleague Katie Benner wrote about female entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley who are pressured by venture capitalists for sexual favors. Kantor: The Times has made a huge commitment to sexual harassment reporting. What prompted your investigation into Harvey Weinstein? They also discussed the substantive change they hope the wave of harassment allegations will inspire. On a recent Friday afternoon at the Times’ midtown Manhattan offices, Kantor and Twohey took a break from reporting on a blockbuster exposé about the institutions and power brokers who enabled Weinstein’s bad behavior to reflect on the fallout from their stories. “This was a story that only got bigger and deeper as we kept going,” Kantor says. By meticulously chronicling Weinstein’s abuses, these reporters have inspired other people to speak out and go public about the cultures of harassment in the workplace.
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Their tenacity helped them break the initial Weinstein story and, along with The New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow, they’ve painted a portrait of a serial predator who was able to use his power to prey on female employees and actresses in a methodical fashion. New York Times investigative reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor deserve a lot of credit for helping to spark this industry-wide reckoning.
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