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    NBC News denies that it tried to shut down Ronan Farrow's Harvey Weinstein reporting

    by Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times Aug 31, 2018 5 minutes

    Ronan Farrow shared a Pulitzer Prize and received other major journalistic kudos for his investigation of Harvey Weinstein's alleged sexual harassment, assault, rape and abuse of power during his long career as a movie mogul.

    But nearly a year after Farrow's story made headlines and helped blaze the trail of the #MeToo movement, NBC News is still taking heat over its decision to pass on the story.

    NBC News, where Farrow first launched his reporting that eventually was published in the New Yorker magazine, claims the report was never ready for prime time while he worked on it for the network.

    The focus on how the story was handled is likely to intensify after Farrow's former NBC News producer Rich McHugh told the New York Times on Thursday that the network's brass resisted its Weinstein reporting in 2017,

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