FOR TEACHING STUDENT JOURNALISTS HOW TO GET TO THE TRUTH
journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey published the results of their 18-month investigation into movie mogul; a film adaptation is due in theaters in November. They wrote another book, , which came out last fall and targeted a new audience: high school and college-age journalists. Kantor says that they were inspired by the young journalists who flocked to their 2017 book tour for , full of questions. “At a time when it sometimes feels like the truth is collapsing and so much is wrong in the world,” says Kantor, “we sensed that there were young people out there who saw journalism [as] a line of work that’s about engaging with the truth and creating progress.” addresses on an even more granular level how the duo broke the Weinstein story, offering access to their methods for approaching sources, fact-checking and corroborating accounts, and writing. The book also covers the aftermath of the reporting and provides readers with a list of reporting tips. “Investigative journalism is about [cracking open] secrets, so the work can seem inaccessible,” Kantor says. “We want to give students a blueprint for how to do it.”
