Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Los Angeles Times

    NBC News denies that it tried to shut down Ronan Farrow's Harvey Weinstein reporting

    by Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times Aug 31, 2018 5 minutes

    Ronan Farrow shared a Pulitzer Prize and received other major journalistic kudos for his investigation of Harvey Weinstein's alleged sexual harassment, assault, rape and abuse of power during his long career as a movie mogul.

    But nearly a year after Farrow's story made headlines and helped blaze the trail of the #MeToo movement, NBC News is still taking heat over its decision to pass on the story.

    NBC News, where Farrow first launched his reporting that eventually was published in the New Yorker magazine, claims the report was never ready for prime time while he worked on it for the network.

    The focus on how the story was handled is likely to intensify after Farrow's former NBC News producer Rich McHugh told the New York Times on Thursday that the network's brass resisted its Weinstein reporting in 2017,

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Los Angeles Times

    Los Angeles Times11 min read
    After Scandal, Movie Producer Randall Emmett Is Flying Under The Radar With A New Name
    LOS ANGELES — On April 26, John Travolta debuted his latest film — “Cash Out,” an action thriller about a bank heist gone wrong. The trailer credits it as “a film by Ives.” “Cash Out” is the first and only project Ives has ever worked on, according t
    Los Angeles Times7 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
    Will AI Deepfakes And Robocalls Upset The 2024 Election?
    In the analog days of the 1970s, long before hackers, trolls and edgelords, an audiocassette company came up with an advertising slogan that posed a trick question: "Is it live or is it Memorex?" The message toyed with reality, suggesting there was n
    Los Angeles Times2 min read
    Bret Baier's Teenage Son Paul Is In Recovery After Emergency Open-heart Surgery
    Fox News anchor Bret Baier's teenage son Paul says his recovery from open-heart surgery is "going pretty smoothly." The 16-year-old was forced to undergo the emergency surgery last week after an MRI revealed a golf ball-sized aneurysm had formed off

    Related Books & Audiobooks