She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement Audiobook
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement Audiobook
- Rebecca Lowman, Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey
- Penguin Audio
- 2019-09-10
- 9 h 53 min
Summary:
From your Pulitzer-prize winning reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassment and abuse for the brand new York Times, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the thrilling untold story of their investigation and its own consequences for the #MeToo motion
On October 5, 2017, the newest York Times posted articles by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey–and then your world changed. For a few months Kantor and Twohey had been having private discussions with top actresses, former about She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Motion Weinstein workers and other sources, learning of disturbing long-buried allegations, some of which had been protected up by onerous legal settlements. The journalists meticulously selected their method through an internet of decades-old top secret payouts and nondisclosure agreements, pressed some of the most well-known ladies in the world–and some unidentified ones–to risk taking place the record, and encountered down Weinstein, his group of high-priced defenders, as well as his private researchers.
But nothing could have prepared them for what followed the publication of their Weinstein story. Within times, a veritable Pandora’s Package of intimate harassment and misuse was opened, and females who had suffered alone for generations began coming forward, trusting that the world would understand their stories. Over another twelve months, hundreds of men from every walk of lifestyle and industry will be outed for mistreating their co-workers. But did too much change–or insufficient? Those queries plunged both journalists right into a fresh phase of reporting and some of their most startling results yet.
With superlative detail, insight, and journalistic expertise, Kantor and Twohey take us for the first time into the extremely heart of this social shift, reliving in real-time what it took to get the story and giving an up-close family portrait from the forces that hindered and spurred change. They describe the astonishing journeys of those who spoke up–for the sake of additional women, for future generations, as well as for themselves–and so changed us all.
Includes a Bonus PDF of the Notes in the Book