She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey chronicle the year they spent reporting on Harvey Weinstein for The New York Times, from the first tentative sources through the October 2017 story that helped ignite the MeToo movement. They walk through the mechanics of persuading survivors like Ashley Judd and Laura Madden to go on the record and the legal warfare Weinstein's team waged behind the scenes. The book also documents Christine Blasey Ford's decision to testify against Brett Kavanaugh, which the authors covered as it unfolded. The reporting is meticulous and unflashy, and the book operates as both a case study and a document of a movement. It became the basis for the 2022 film starring Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan.
What you might want to know about She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
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The New York Times reporters who broke the Harvey Weinstein story tell the inside account.
Swisher has praised She Said on her podcasts as essential reading on power, media, and MeToo, and she has hosted its authors to discuss the reporting behind it.
It is honest about what survivors described but not gratuitous. The focus is on the investigation and the choices that made it possible.
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement was written by Jodi Kantor, published in 2019 by Penguin Books.
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement is 320 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement takes most readers 5 to 7 hours to finish.
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
