Megan, Laura and Louis ask questions about the impact of reporting on sexual assault. Meghan asks why some stories gain traction while others don't in a political world where both sides are taking up arms against each other. Louis: How do you go to victims' houses and stand in their driveways whilst respecting and maintaining an idea of how difficult that must be for them? Jodie says she thinks NDA's would be very effective in reaching women who otherwise can't be reached in any other way. The final question is whether or not they feel as though they're now professionally bound by this work.
International Women’s Week on Intelligence Squared. On this episode we hear from some of the women who helped sparked the 2017 MeToo movement. Jodi Kantor and Meghan Twohey are the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalists who first broke the story of Harvey Weinstein’s alleged sexual misconduct with dozens of Hollywood’s most elite actresses. The journalists were joined on stage by three women who had previously worked with Weinstein and broke their long-buried, and legally bound, silence over his sexual abuse allegations; Rowena Chiu - Former assistant to Harvey Weinstein; Laura Madden - Former production executive at Harvey Weinstein’s Miramax Films London; and Zelda Perkins - Former assistant to Harvey Weinstein and a campaigner against non-disclosure agreements. In this conversation they recount their work to publish a story which had been silenced for decades and how this sparked a movement for societal change. Our host for this conversation was Carrie Gracie, Former BBC China Editor and author of Equal: A Story of Women, Men and Money. This recording took place in central London in 2019 as part of the series “Intelligent Times” – a partnership between Intelligence Squared and The New York Times.
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