Brian Lair on WNYC, we want to acknowledge some of our colleagues for a few minutes now,

because it's not every day that you learn that you're working with people who've been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

As our editor-in-chief, Audrey Cooper describes it, the WNYC Newsroom did what no other outlet

or government official bothered to do when we started pouring hundreds of lawsuits filed under

a Me Too-era law that extended the deadline for people to file civic lawsuits against sexual

abusers. The majority of lawsuits filed in New York State focused on a single location, as it

turned out, Rikers Island. We uncovered, we meaning my colleagues, uncovered and explained

generations of institutionalized abuse that went

ignored by authorities. The we in this case includes WNYC and Gothamist Investigations

Editor Christopher Worth and reporter Jesse Edwards, now a writer and editor for the publication

Hellgate. Jesse and Christopher,

welcome back to the show. And congratulations on being nominated for the Pulitzer and audio reporting.

Hi. Hi, Brian. Thank you so much. It's thrilling. Yeah, thank you, Brian.

I'm going to leave it to you two to decide who answers which questions. But what did you and some of

our other colleagues do as journalists in the context of that law

that led to your findings?

What did we do?

Jesse and another reporter in the newsroom, Samantha Max, polled all of the lawsuits that had

been filed in New York City courts, separated the ones out, you know, that were

pertained to Rikers, where there were people who were making allegations of sexual assault,

sexual abuse while they were held at Rikers.

And they just started to pour through each one of these lawsuits.

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