Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey on Breaking Harvey Weinstein Story – The Hollywood Reporter

When New York Times journalists Jodi Kantor Y Megan Twohey started reporting on Harvey Weinstein, they had very few connections in Hollywood.

“Full disclosure: I barely knew who Harvey Weinstein was I wasTwohey noted Wednesday during the couple’s keynote address at The Hollywood Reporter’s Gala Breakfast Women in Entertainment, Presented by LifeTime.

They fleshed out those sources, however, and their reporting on a litany of decades-spanning sexual assault and harassment allegations against Weinstein, first published in 2017, helped lead to the downfall of the former movie mogul (he was convicted of sexual assault and third grade). rape charges in New York and is currently on trial in Los Angeles for alleged crimes that took place there). They won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 (shared with Ronan Farrow of the new yorker) and later expanded their stories in the book She said — which was adapted for the recently released film starring carey mulligan as Twohey and Zoe Kazan as Kantor.

Mulligan introduced Kantor and Twohey at the WIE breakfast on Wednesday and said he owed the two “a huge debt”.

“I think I would speak to my children differently. I think I would go into job negotiations differently. I think I would walk down the street differently,” Mulligan said. “Because the story they told was not about one man. They were interested in systems that maintain and have maintained that behavior for millennia. And the story that…