Ronan Farrow on Catch and Kill

Next Question with Katie Couric

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🗓️ 17 October 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Ronan Farrow’s reporting on Harvey Weinstein helped inspire a cultural reckoning—and won him the Pulitzer Prize. So why did NBC try to kill the biggest story of the year? On this episode of Next Question, Katie sits down with Ronan to discuss his new book Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators—a jaw-dropping account of the extreme measures NBC News and Harvey Weinstein took to keep the producer’s history of sexual violence hidden. From the Russian spies who stalked him to Weinstein’s attempts to use Matt Lauer as leverage, Ronan and Katie talk about the campaign to silence both the press and the victims, the power structures that continue to protect abusers to this day, and where the #MeToo movement goes from here—not just in media, but in workplaces everywhere.

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1:43.7	Hi everyone, I'm Katie Curric and welcome to next question where we try to understand the
1:48.4	complicated world we're living in and the crazy things that are happening by asking questions
1:54.8	and by listening to people who really know what they're talking about. At times it may lead to some
2:00.2	pretty uncomfortable conversations, but stick with me everyone. Let's all learn together.
2:11.6	Hello Ronan, here he is son. Stop 79 of the whistle stop tour. How are you?
2:18.2	Always a pleasure. I've been looking forward to that. Yeah, me too. Thank you so much for making time.
2:22.1	I think we'll have a really interesting conversation. I am guessing we will. We have a lot to catch up on.
2:28.8	This week we're exploring workplace culture and not just any workplace, NBC News,
2:34.5	where I spent nearly 20 years of my career. The story that Ronan Farrow chronicles in his new book
2:40.6	Catching Kill is full of intrigue, deception, and accusations of sexual assault and corporate malfeasance.
2:48.1	It's a story I have been thinking a lot about in processing for the last two years and one I'm
2:54.0	actually writing about as I work on my own book about my personal and professional life.
2:59.9	But for now my next question, how and why did NBC News fail to give the green light to one of the
3:06.8	most important stories of the year? Ronan Farrow is here to answer that question. Ronan, good morning.
3:14.9	Nice to see you. Lovely to see you. You've been working on this book for two years. You want to
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