Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey are investigative reporters at the New York Times. Kantor has focused on the workplace in her reporting, and particularly the treatment of women, covered two presidential campaigns, and is the author of The Obamas. Twohey has focused much of her attention on the treatment of women and children, and, in 2014, as a reporter with Reuters News, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. Kantor and Twohey shared numerous honors for breaking the Harvey Weinstein story, including a George Polk Award, and, along with colleagues, the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
“A binge-read of a book, propelled, for the most part, by a
clear, adrenaline-spiking ticktock of how their stories came
together, and studded with all manner of new astonishing
details...This is Kantor and Twohey’s story and one everyone should
read for a panoply of reasons. By simply recounting their
reporting, the two offer a masterful explanation of how a man like
Weinstein is allowed to abuse his power and many women for so long
in something approaching plain sight…In many ways, “She Said”
is more significant than “All the President’s Men,” and not just
because journalism is currently under siege, financially and
politically, in a way it was not in the 1970s. There was a finite
number of people responsible for the crimes of the Nixon
administration; the alleged crimes of Harvey Weinstein are also the
crimes of our culture, and they continue to be committed every day
by many men all around the world. Although now, one hopes, without
as much silence, secrecy and cultural complacency.” — Los
Angeles Times Review
“'She Said,' a new book detailing the astonishing behind-the-scenes
of the New York Times’s bombshell Harvey Weinstein exposé, is an
instant classic of investigative journalism. If your jaw dropped at
the newspaper’s original allegations against the predatory movie
mogul, prepare for it to hit the floor as authors Jodi Kantor and
Megan Twohey recount how they uncovered the story: secret meetings,
harrowing phone calls, private text exchanges with A-list actresses
agonizing over whether to go on the record. Ashley Judd plays the
stoic warrior; Gwyneth Paltrow, the circumspect liaison who tries
to help the reporters find other sources.” – Monica Hesse, The
Washington Post
“She Said, the journalists’ clear-eyed record of that effort, reads
at some moments as a thriller, and at others as an indictment of a
system full of rot. But it is ultimately about the women, bonded in
their pain, who refused to be silent any longer.” – The
Atlantic
“‘She Said,’ a chronicle of the #MeToo era by Jodi Kantor and Megan
Twohey, reveals the power of women who, together, refused to stay
silent.” – The New Republic
“Kantor and Twohey even-handedly assess the impact of the #MeToo
movement thus far while also turning a perceptive, hopeful eye on
the way forward.” — Esquire
“She Said is the story behind the story that changed
the world….Come for the shocking reveals, stay for how the book
expertly parses the current moment.”—Refinery29
“‘She Said’ is riveting and, crafted by two of the country's most
talented journalists, a vibrant, cinematic
read.”— CNN
“Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey are two names that future generations
will read about in history books.” — Mashable
“Kantor and Twohey have crafted their news dispatches into a
seamless and suspenseful account of their reportorial journey, a
gripping blow-by-blow of how they managed, “working in the blank
spaces between the words,” to corroborate allegations that had been
chased and abandoned by multiple journalists before them. . .
Watching Kantor and Twohey pursue their goal while guarding each
other’s back is as exhilarating as watching Megan Rapinoe and
Crystal Dunn on the pitch. . . It turns out we did need to hear
more about Weinstein — and the “more” that Kantor and Twohey give
us draws an important distinction between the trendy ethic of
hashtag justice and the disciplined professionalism and
institutional heft that actually got the job done.”—Susan Faludi,
New York Times Book Review
“An instant classic of investigative journalism. The book is packed
with reluctant sources, emotional interviews, clandestine meetings,
impatient editors, secret documents, late-night door knocks, toady
lawyers and showdowns with Weinstein himself. The cumulative effect
is almost cinematic, a sort of “All the President’s Men” for the Me
Too era, except the men are women, and they don’t protect the boss,
they take him down.”— Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post
“She Said is first and foremost an account of incredible reporting,
the kind that takes time, diligence and the kind of institutional
support many newspapers can no longer afford. For journalist
readers, it is a chance to watch experts at work. And this book is
a rare view for nonjournalists into the exacting and rigorous
process of quality reporting, and it acts as an implicit
counterargument to rising, ambient skepticism of the press. Kantor
and Twohey show the background research they ran on sources, to
protect both them and the paper, the careful way they documented
and substantiated information, and their extraordinary precision in
acquiring proof. . . Deeply suspenseful, a kind of less swaggering
All the President's Men.”—NPR
“Kantor and Twohey, writing a professional memoir that often reads
as a riveting work of true crime, offer damning evidence for what
is by now a familiar theme: a legal system that promises blindness
and balance—the mechanisms through which truth might be finally
determined—and too often comes up short. She Said finds Kantor and
Twohey (and the extensive team of editors, lawyers, and
fact-checkers who bolster their work) exposing not merely
Weinstein, but also the system that kept him, at the expense of so
many others, safe... So while there is triumph in She Said—the book
is a tale of investigative reporting’s power to nudge the world out
of its complacencies—there is also a sense of necessary
open-endedness... The journalist offers the evidence; it is for the
rest of us to decide what the justice looks like.”—The Atlantic
“Kantor and Twohey are godsends…their reporting and their
commitment were pivotal in the #MeToo movement, and this history is
flush with gratitude for the women who trusted them with their
stories.” – The Oregonian
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