Megan Twohey

Megan Twohey
Portrait of Megan Twohey at the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes
Twohey at the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes
Born Evanston, Illinois
Nationality American
Alma mater Georgetown University
Occupation Journalist
Awards Pulitzer Prize for Public Service (named contributor)

Megan Twohey is an investigative reporter with The New York Times. Twohey has also written investigative reports for Reuters, the Chicago Tribune and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.[1] She has investigated exploitive doctors, revealed untested rape kits, and uncovered a secret underground network of abandoned unwanted adopted children.[2] Her investigative reports have led to criminal convictions and helped prompt new laws aimed at protecting vulnerable people and children.[3] She has also won other national journalism awards and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting.[1][4]

In 2017, Twohey and Jodi Kantor published a report about Harvey Weinstein detailing decades of sexual abuse allegations, and more than 80 women publicly accused Weinstein of sexually abuse or assault.[5] This led to Weinstein's firing and helped start the viral #MeToo movement.[5][6] That work was honored in 2018, when The New York Times was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.[7]

Biography

Megan Twohey is from Evanston, Illinois.[1] She went to Evanston Township High School, and graduated from Georgetown University in 1998.[8] Twohey's parents were both involved in news media; her mother produced news for TV and her father edited for the Chicago Tribune. Twohey initially joined The New York Times in 2016 to investigate Trump's history of paying taxes, possible business ties to Russia, and his past treatment of women,[9] and has become a regular contributor.[1]

Investigative reports

Untested rape kits

In 2009, Twohey reported in the Chicago Tribune that several suburban police departments around Chicago were not submitting all rape kits for testing.[10] In the following year, Illinois became the first U.S. state to require every rape kit be tested, and many other states in the U.S. followed soon after.[11][12]

Predatory doctors

From 2010-2011, Twohey published a series of articles in the Chicago Tribune detailing cases of doctors who had been convicted of violent felonies or sex crimes and were still practicing and abusing patients.[13] Her reporting has been credited for leading to new legislation and policies in Illinois aimed at protecting patients, for example requiring background checks for healthcare providers.[14][15]

Abandoned children

In 2013, Twohey published an investigative report in Reuters News that detailed how some people in America were using the internet to find places to abandon their adopted children.[16] Several segments of this story were broadcast on the Nightly News and the Today Show on NBC.[3] She received a Sydney Award and the Michael Kelly Award for her work revealing these underground networks.[3][17] Twohey was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for this work.[4]

Donald Trump

In 2016, Twohey and Michael Barbaro published several investigative pieces to The New York Times about sexual misconduct by then-candidate Donald Trump.[18][9] She has continued to report on the incidents into 2017.[19] Trump has threatened to sue The New York Times if they don't take down the articles,[20] though The Times refused.[21]

Weinstein sexual abuse

In 2017, Twohey and Jodi Kantor co-wrote a The New York Times expose on sexual misconduct by Harvey Weinstein. Twohey said they were encouraged to investigate untold stories, and that Dean Baquet, executive editor, and Rebecca Corbett, head of investigative projects, had supported them even though Weinstein had threatened to sue The New York Times and the expose risked hurting advertising money.[22] Twohey and Kantor had two meetings with Weinstein in person. Twohey, Kantor and Corbett also had multiple conversations with Weinstein's lawyers and publicists.[23] A followup piece with fellow reporter Ellen Gabler added more allegations and expanded the Weinstein timeline.[24] Twohey said it was an emotional experience when she started seeing friends and family saying #MeToo on her social media feed in the aftermath of the Weinstein allegations.[25] Twohey and Kantor are publishing an international book, set to be published in Spring 2019, based on their investigation that will reveal more about what happened.[26] They received a Sydney Award for their expose. They were also given L.A. Press Club's Inaugural Impact Award and the McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage from the Grady College of Journalism.[27][28] The New York Times won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for public service for Twohey's and Jodi Kantor's reporting, sharing the award with Ronan Farrow at The New Yorker.[29][30]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Megan Twohey". The New York Times. 2018-01-12. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  2. ↑ GmbH, finanzen.net. "CJF to present Special Citation to New York Times reporters who broke Harvey Weinstein story". markets.businessinsider.com. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  3. 1 2 3 "Megan Twohey | The Michael Kelly Award". www.kellyaward.com. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  4. 1 2 "Finalist: Megan Twohey of Reuters". www.pulitzer.org. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  5. 1 2 "NYT reporters on breaking Harvey Weinstein story, #MeToo "reckoning"". Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  6. ↑ Kantor, Jodi; Twohey, Megan (2017-10-05). "Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers for Decades". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  7. ↑ "Here are the winners of the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes". Poynter. Retrieved 2018-04-16.
  8. ↑ "Alumni US | Georgetown University, Washington D.C. Metro Area". alumnius.net. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  9. 1 2 Twohey, Megan; Barbaro, Michael (2016-10-12). "Two Women Say Donald Trump Touched Them Inappropriately". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  10. ↑ Twohey, Megan. "Dozens of rape kits not submitted for testing by Chicago suburban police departments". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  11. ↑ reporter, Megan Twohey, Tribune. "Illinois to test every rape kit". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  12. ↑ "Illinois | ENDTHEBACKLOG". www.endthebacklog.org. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  13. ↑ Tribune, Chicago. "Doctors operate unchecked". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  14. ↑ reporter, Megan Twohey, Tribune. "Legislation puts medical licenses of sex offenders in cross hairs". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  15. ↑ "Sex offenders barred from health care". tribunedigital-chicagotribune. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  16. ↑ "Reuters Investigates - The Child Exchange". Reuters. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  17. ↑ "Megan Twohey Wins October Sidney for Exposing America's Underground Market for Adopted Children". Hillman Foundation. 2013-10-09. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  18. ↑ Barbaro, Michael; Twohey, Megan (2016-05-14). "Crossing the Line: How Donald Trump Behaved With Women in Private". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  19. ↑ Twohey, Megan (2017-11-01). "Trump's Female Accusers Feel Forgotten. A Lawsuit May Change That". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  20. ↑ "The New York Times's Lawyer Responds to Donald Trump". The New York Times. 2016-10-13. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  21. ↑ Rappeport, Alan (2016-10-13). "Donald Trump Threatens to Sue The Times Over Article on Unwanted Advances". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  22. ↑ Symonds, Alexandria (2017-10-15). "How to Break a Sexual Harassment Story". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  23. ↑ "How These Two Women Finally Exposed Harvey Weinstein". Marie Claire. 2017-10-23. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  24. ↑ Astor, Maggie (2017-12-07). "2 Times Reporters Will Write Book on Sexual Abuse Scandals". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  25. ↑ Lang, Brent (2017-12-13). "How New York Times Reporters Broke Hollywood's Biggest Sexual Harassment Story". Variety. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  26. ↑ Cills, Hazel. "Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, Who Broke the Weinstein Story, Will Publish Book Internationally". Jezebel. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  27. ↑ "Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey win November Sidney for exposing Weinstein harassment & Hollywood complicity". Hillman Foundation. 2017-11-08. Retrieved 2018-01-18.
  28. ↑ "New York Times reporters receive 2018 McGill Medal for Journalistic Courage - Grady College". Grady College. 2018-03-06. Retrieved 2018-04-03.
  29. ↑ pulitzer.org
  30. ↑ The New York Times, for reporting led by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, and The New Yorker, for reporting by Ronan Farrow
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