Bringing Down Harvey Weinstein

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For the subsequent few months, we’re sharing a few of our favourite conversations from the podcast’s archives. This week’s segments first appeared in 2019 and 2020, respectively.

Of their best-selling guide “She Mentioned” — the premise for the Maria Schrader-directed movie of the identical title, at the moment in theaters — the Instances reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey recount how they broke the Harvey Weinstein story, work that earned them the Pulitzer Prize, led to Weinstein’s 2020 conviction on felony intercourse crimes and helped solidify #MeToo as an ongoing nationwide motion.

When the guide was printed in 2019, Twohey and Kantor had been company on the podcast and mentioned the difficulties that they had confronted in getting girls to talk on the report about Weinstein’s predation. In addition they mentioned that their protection of office sexual harassment wouldn’t finish with Weinstein: “Our angle is which you can’t resolve an issue you’ll be able to’t see,” Kantor instructed the host Pamela Paul. “Megan and I can’t adjudicate the entire controversies round #MeToo, however what we are able to proceed to do is deliver data to mild in a accountable method and uncover this secret historical past that so many people are nonetheless making an attempt to know.”

Additionally this week, we revisit Neal Gabler’s 2020 podcast look, through which he talked about “Catching the Wind,” the primary quantity of his Ted Kennedy biography. (The second and concluding quantity, “In opposition to the Wind,” has simply been printed.) “I approached this guide as a biography of Edward Kennedy, but additionally, equally, a biography of American liberalism,” he mentioned on the time.

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