Reporters Who Broke Harvey Weinstein Story To Speak At CU Boulder

BOULDER, CO — Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists and authors of the New York Times expose detailing the Harvey Weinstein allegations, will speak at the University of Colorado Boulder's Macky Auditorium Oct. 21.

Kantor and Twohey will be hosted by the Distinguished Speakers Board, a student-led organization.

“Kantor and Twohey are two highly distinguished investigative journalists, and their award-winning work helped ignite a cultural revolution. #MeToo gave many the power to speak up about their experiences as victims of sexual harassment and abuse,” CU Boulder student and Distinguished Speakers Board Chair Cameron Trauger said in a statement. “DSB believes their experience and perspective are integral to understanding, unpacking, and examining the behavior of those in positions of power, and to further understand journalistic practices to amplify the voices of those who are not.”

Doors will open for the event at 6:30 p.m. and the event will begin at 7:30 p.m.

Ticket info

Public tickets, which are $20, will be available beginning Oct. 7 at 10 a.m.

CU Boulder student ($2) and faculty/staff ($10) tickets: Cash only. A valid Buff OneCard required at time of purchase. Student/faculty/staff tickets will be sold weekdays beginning Oct. 7 from 10 a.m to 3 p.m. at the first-floor event table in the University Memorial Center and will continue through October 21 (or until tickets are sold out).

For parties larger than two, please contact dsbchair@colorado.edu.

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About the speakers (excerpt courtesy of CU Boulder)

On October 5, 2017, the New York Times published an article by Kantor and Twohey – and then the world changed. But nothing could have prepared the two reporters for what followed the publication of their Weinstein story. Within days, a veritable Pandora’s Box of sexual harassment and abuse was opened, and women who had suffered in silence for generations began coming forward, trusting that the world would understand their stories.

Over the next 12 months, hundreds of men from every walk of life and industry would be outed for mistreating their colleagues. But did too much change – or not enough? Those questions plunged the two journalists into a new phase of reporting and some of their most startling findings yet.

With superlative detail, insight, and journalistic expertise, Kantor and Twohey take us for the first time into the very heart of this social shift, reliving in real-time what it took to get the story and giving an up-close portrait of the forces that hindered and spurred change. They describe the surprising journeys of those who spoke up – for the sake of other women, for future generations, and for themselves – and so changed us all.