Megan Twohey

Megan Twohey
Portrait of Megan Twohey at the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes
Twohey at the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes
Born
Evanston, Illinois, U.S.
Alma materGeorgetown University
OccupationJournalist
Awards2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service (named contributor)

Megan Twohey (/ˈtuːi/ TOO-ee)[1] is an American journalist with The New York Times. She has written investigative reports for Reuters, the Chicago Tribune, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.[2] Twohey's investigative reports have exposed exploitative doctors, revealed untested rape kits, and uncovered a secret underground network of abandoned unwanted adopted children.[3] Her investigative reports have led to criminal convictions and helped prompt new laws aimed at protecting vulnerable people and children.[4]

On October 5, 2017, Twohey and fellow New York Times journalist Jodi Kantor published a report about Harvey Weinstein detailing decades of sexual abuse allegations, and more than 80 women publicly accused Weinstein of sexually abusing or assaulting them.[5] This led to Weinstein's firing and helped to ignite the viral #MeToo movement started by the American activist Tarana Burke.[5][6] That work was honored in 2018, when The New York Times was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.[7] Kantor and Twohey won the George Polk award and were named to Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people of the year. Twohey and Kantor subsequently authored a book which chronicled their report about Weinstein, titled She Said. The book was published in 2019, and adapted into a film of the same name in 2022. In addition to winning the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, Twohey was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2014.[2][8]

  1. ^ Twohey, Megan (September 15, 2020). "A Deadly Tinderbox". The Daily (Podcast). The New York Times. Event occurs at 0:00. Retrieved October 4, 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Megan Twohey". The New York Times. January 12, 2018. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on January 17, 2018. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
  3. ^ GmbH, finanzen.net. "CJF to present Special Citation to New York Times reporters who broke Harvey Weinstein story". markets.businessinsider.com. Archived from the original on January 19, 2018. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
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  5. ^ a b "NYT reporters on breaking Harvey Weinstein story, #MeToo "reckoning"". NBC News. December 19, 2017. Archived from the original on January 18, 2018. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
  6. ^ Kantor, Jodi; Twohey, Megan (October 5, 2017). "Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers for Decades". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on August 24, 2021. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
  7. ^ LaForme, Ren (April 16, 2018). "Here are the winners of the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes". Poynter. Archived from the original on August 10, 2018. Retrieved April 16, 2018.
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference :3 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).