This is how the New York Times reports Pulitzer Prize-winning stories

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4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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New York Times reporter Emily Steel talks with Recode's Peter Kafka about the stories she and her reporting partner Michael Schmidt wrote that brought down Fox News star Bill O'Reilly — part of a series of stories on sexual harassment that netted the Times and the New Yorker a Pulitzer Prize for public service. Steel says she and Schmidt strategized before every phone call and recalls how she got her first source to talk on the record, an act of dogged reporting that necessitated a cross-country flight to take a Pilates class. She also discusses her subsequent story about the toxic culture at Vice Media, a contentious interview with O'Reilly that was broadcast on the NYT's hit podcast The Daily and why she doesn't use Twitter as much as colleagues do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:47.9	This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka. That is me. I am part of the Vox Media Podcast Network,
0:53.2	and I'm here at Vox Media headquarters in New York City. Before we get to talk to my Pulitzer Prize winning guests, one quick ask from you. Tell someone about this show. You know how to tell people about this show because you know how to use Twitter and Facebook and email. And that is the end of my pitch. Welcome, Emily Steele from the New York Times.
1:11.7	Thank you.
1:12.4	Normally, I ask my guests, how do I pronounce your name? I know how to pronounce your name. It's pretty basic. It's pretty easy. Yeah. Here's my question. Am I pronouncing Pulitzer, correct? You know, my dad had the same question this week. He said, is it Pulitzer? Right. I used to go Pulitzer.
1:26.8	I say Pulitzer.
1:27.9	Well, if you say Pulitzer, you're a Pulitzer Prize winner. You win.
1:30.6	Well.
1:31.1	Congrats. Pulitzer? Right. I used to go Pulitzer. I say Pulitzer.
1:27.9	Well, if you say Pulitzer, you're a Pulitzer Prize winner. You win. Well, congrats. Thank you. Thank you. You're one of the team at New York Times who won for public service. There are many Pulitzer Prize awards. That's the best one. Right? You can say that. I can say that. You can say that. For the work you did,
1:45.1	focusing on sexual harassment at Fox News and later advice, am I missing anything? Those are the,
1:52.7	those are the big ones, right? Yeah, those were the big ones. And the Times in general, right?
1:57.5	Obviously called out for the work with the Weinstein stuff and all the amazing work you guys did
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