The memo also documented Weinstein's repeated attempts to influence the reporting including calls and emails made to Lack, Oppenheim, Griff and Rich Greenberg, executive editor of the NBC News investigative unit during the course of Farrow's reporting. "But I think what is inappropriate is the way in which they continued to take those calls, and in some cases meetings, and to engage with him in a warm and friendly way that was then concealed as they killed the story."Ī spokesperson for NBC News pointed to a memo issued in September 2018 detailing Farrow's work on the Weinstein story while at NBC News and the details of his reporting. "I don't mean that all of them all of the time were dying to get these calls," Farrow told The Hollywood Reporter. Later Wednesday morning, The Hollywood Reporter published an extensive summary of parts of Farrow's book along with an interview with the author.įarrow said Weinstein was "laying siege to NBC" and that his reporting turned up accounts of emails and phone calls that showed Weinstein pressed Lack, NBC News President Noah Oppenheim and MSNBC President Phil Griffin to scuttle the story.
Weinstein has been criminally charged and he denies all allegations that he had nonconsensual sex. NBC News said in an internal report that Farrow's draft story on Weinstein contained misstatements and wasn't ready for broadcast because "there was not a single victim … willing to be identified." The NBC report added that Farrow's New Yorker story was published nearly two months after he left NBC News, and five days after The New York Times broke the Weinstein story.įarrow's work was published in the New Yorker in October 2017.
Farrow started his reporting on Weinstein while at NBC News, and won a Pulitzer for his work on the allegations against powerful men and the attempts to silence survivors that appeared in The New Yorker. Farrow, who previously worked for NBC News, was among the first journalists to report sexual harassment and misconduct claims against movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.
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