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🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Harvey Weinstein is once again in a Manhattan courtroom defending himself against sex crimes charges – allegations that came to light after deep investigative work by New York Times reporter Jodi Kantor. The best-selling co-author of “She Said” joins host Krys Boyd to talk about her work uncovering consequential stories, when she knows a story is ready for print, and what attracts her to stories that hold powerful people to account.
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0:49.3 | In 2020, former film producer Harvey Weinstein was convicted of two felony sex crimes in New York and sentenced to 23 years in prison. |
0:59.0 | Last year, an appeals court overturned that conviction. |
1:01.8 | So now Weinstein is back in a Manhattan court to be retried on two charges from the original trial. |
1:07.5 | Regardless of what happens in this trial or the appeal of his 2022 rape conviction in Los Angeles, |
1:14.0 | Weinstein will be forever linked to the Me Too movement, the global phenomenon that led women to |
1:18.9 | share their stories of abuse at the hands of powerful men. It was a reckoning decades in the making, |
1:25.3 | and it may never have happened if not for Jody Cantor. |
1:28.3 | From KERA in Dallas, this is Think. I'm Chris Boyd. |
1:32.3 | In 2017, Cantor and journalist Megan Tuey detailed decades of sexual abuse allegation against Weinstein in the New York Times. |
1:41.3 | Their reporting spawned a book and a movie called She Said, |
1:45.2 | Zoe Kazan plays Cantor to carry Mulligan's towey. And while the story itself is, of course, |
1:50.3 | a very painful one, bringing it into the light was a reminder of journalist's unique ability |
1:55.1 | to hold powerful people to account. Cantor is still at the New York Times. She now covers |
2:00.0 | the U.S. Supreme Court there, |
2:01.6 | and I recently had the chance to talk to her in front of a live audience at Texas Woman's |
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