In 2018, The New York Times and The New Yorker shared the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, for “explosive, impactful journalism that exposed wealthy and influential sexual predators.”
The series of reports, written by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey (of the New York Times) and Ronan Farrow (of the New Yorker), brought producer Harvey Weinstein and other powerful men to account for “long-suppressed allegations of coercion, brutality and victim-silencing.”
As a result, it spurred a worldwide reckoning, known these days as the #MeToo Movement, that raged and railed against the sexual abuse of hapless women, as well as the culture of impunity that, in Weinstein’s case particularly, …
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