Reporting on Open Secrets, with Jodi Kantor and Katie Benner

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🗓️ 27 October 2017

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Allegations of sexual harassment (and more) by powerful men in numerous industries have been leading news reports across America. On-the-record accounts of disturbing behavior are proliferating. Several leaders of prominent companies have been forced out of their positions. Does this represent a lasting shift in attitudes toward scandalous conduct, or will the public's interest in these matters subside? Is this a tipping point, in other words, or a flash point? The journalism of Jodi Kantor, Katie Benner, and their colleagues at The New York Times has been a major catalyst for putting this issue at the top of the national agenda. Kantor and her reporting partner Megan Twohey shared a byline on the October 5 investigation revealing three decades of sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein. As a technology reporter based in Silicon Valley, Benner has chronicled numerous reports of predatory behavior by investors, founders, and other influential figures in the tech industry. In this episode of Radio Atlantic, Kantor and Benner join Alex and Matt to discuss what they've discovered in their reporting, and where they think it will lead. Links: - "Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers for Decades" (Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, The New York Times, 10/5/2017) - "How the Harvey Weinstein Story Has Unfolded" (Daniel Victor, The New York Times, 10/18/2017) - "Women in Tech Speak Frankly on Culture of Harassment" (Katie Benner, The New York Times, 6/30/2017) - "'It Was a Frat House': Inside the Sex Scandal That Toppled SoFi's C.E.O." (Katie Benner and Nathaniel Popper, The New York Times) | SoFi's response - “The ‘Harvey Effect’ Takes Down Leon Wieseltier’s Magazine” (Adrienne LaFrance, The Atlantic, 10/24/2017) - "Harvey Weinstein and the Economics of Consent" (Brit Marling, The Atlantic, 10/23/2017) - "Girl at a Bar" (Saturday Night Live) - Startup, especially seasons two and four - The Burning Girl (Claire Messud) - The Color of Law(Richard Rothstein) - Uncivil - Scene on Radio: Seeing White Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:20.0	Join me, Jeff Chang, at the Edge of Reason, a new limited podcast from Atlantic
0:25.6	Reth, the branded content studio at the Atlantic and Howzer and Worth.
0:29.4	Decades of allegations of sexual harassment by powerful men in numerous fields previously kept as open secrets among those in the know are now spilling out into public view.
0:41.0	Is American society rethinking what it will tolerate or overlooking the scale of the problem?
0:47.0	This is Radio Atlantic. Hi, I'm Matt Thompson, executive editor of the Atlantic. I'm joined by my esteemed co-host,
1:08.7	Alex.
1:10.7	I love when you introduce me as a scene.
1:13.3	You are.
1:15.1	You are in fact esteemed Alex.
1:17.1	Good to hear from you, Matt.
1:18.0	Good to hear from you, Matt.
1:20.3	And in our third and fourth chairs today, I am delighted to say we've got Jody Cantor and Katie Benner
1:27.0	who report for the New York Times.
1:28.8	Hello Jody and Katie.
1:30.6	Hi, great to be with you.
1:32.1	Likewise. Thanks for to have you.
1:34.0	It feels like the Times this year has committed itself to a real effort to root out reports of
1:40.5	sexually predatory behavior at the tops of many different industries.
1:44.6	Jody, the dominoes are still falling from this massive months long investigation into the
1:50.6	behavior of Harvey Weinstein that you did with your colleague Megan Toe.
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