New Accuser Claims NBC Tried to Kill Her Rape Allegations One Year After #MeToo
Michael Nagle/Getty Images The Daily Beast has published an op-ed from a writer who accused NBC of trying to suppress her reporting on sexual harassers. Sil Lai Abrams wrote that in 2018, one year...
View ArticleAfter Meeting with Matt Lauer, He Has a Compelling Story, But Is There a Fair...
Tuesday, I took a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to New York so that I could spend most of the day speaking with former NBC News anchor Matt Lauer about his version of the events that resulted in his...
View ArticleRonan Farrow Describes Being Threatened, Spied Upon While Reporting His New...
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow appeared on CBS’ Late Show and, in discussing his new book Catch and Kill, described how he was both threatened and spied upon during the reporting...
View ArticleRonan Farrow Calls Out Fox News ‘Concealing Patterns of Harassment’ During...
Journalist Ronan Farrow used an appearance on Fox News to call out Fox News for “concealing patterns of harassment” at the top of the company, while anchor Shannon Bream immediately pushed back with...
View ArticleMaddow Scorches NBC Over Accusations Network Execs Shielded Weinstein, Lauer:...
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow laid out in excruciating detail the alleged misconduct of NBC News executives, who have been accused of killing an explosive exposé on Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assaults and of...
View ArticleAfter My Meeting With Matt Lauer, Ronan Farrow Ducking an Interview is Very...
Angela Weiss/Getty Images A week ago, I met with former NBC News anchor Matt Lauer for about six hours to do an unorthodox, off-the-record interview with him, the first extensive exchange he has done...
View ArticleNBC’s Andy Lack Dodges on Outside Investigation Based on Ronan Farrow...
Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images As NBC News Chairman Andy Lack oversaw Wednesday night’s Democratic 2020 Primary Debate, he reportedly dodged questions from a journalist who tried to ask him about...
View ArticleRonan Farrow Says Weinstein Investigation Made Him ‘Radioactive’ to People...
Mike Pont, Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Journalist and prominent #MeToo investigator Ronan Farrow says that his relationship with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “cooled” after it became...
View ArticleHachette Drops Woody Allen Book After Reaction from Ronan Farrow, Employee...
Ander Gillenea / AFP / Getty Images Hachette is no longer going forward with the release of Woody Allen’s upcoming memoir. To recap: Ronan Farrow’s book Catch and Kill — about Harvey Weinstein and...
View ArticleRonan Farrow Being Allowed to Kill Woody Allen’s Book Deal is Absurd,...
Angela Weiss/Getty Images In a sequence of events which was, paradoxically, as outrageously stunning as it was easily predictable, Hachette Books, which had planned to publish filmmaker Woody Allen’s...
View ArticleNew York Times Media Columnist Ben Smith Delivers Take Down of Ronan Farrow’s...
Sunday evening, Ben Smith, the former Editor-in-Chief of Buzzfeed and now New York Times media columnist, delivered a scathing assessment of the journalistic endeavors of Ronan Farrow, pointing out...
View Article‘I Stand By My Reporting’: Ronan Farrow Defends Himself After NY Times Deep...
The New Yorker‘s Ronan Farrow defended himself on Twitter Monday afternoon following a deep dive audit into his work from The New York Times’ media columnist Ben Smith yesterday. Following a lengthy...
View ArticleMatt Lauer: Why Ronan Farrow Is Indeed Too Good to Be True
Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images Editor’s Note: After Matt Lauer submitted this piece, a response to Ronan Farrow’s book Catch and Kill, Mediaite editors independently fact checked the accounts of the four...
View ArticleThe Inside Story of Matt Lauer’s Investigation Into Ronan Farrow’s Reporting...
Jemal Countess/Getty Images Today, for the first time since he was suddenly fired as the host of the Today show back in late November of 2017, Matt Lauer has extensively detailed his version of the...
View ArticleRonan Farrow Responds to Matt Lauer’s Critique of Catch and Kill
Noam Galai/Getty Images Ronan Farrow responded to Matt Lauer’s new op-ed that criticized his reporting, claiming that the former Today show host was “just wrong” and that the allegations detailed in...
View ArticleDan Abrams Discusses Publishing Matt Lauer Op-Ed With CNN’s Brian Stelter
Mediaite founder Dan Abrams appeared on CNN Sunday to discuss the site’s publication of an op-ed by Matt Lauer which criticized the reporting of Ronan Farrow — whose book included an allegation of...
View ArticleRonan Farrow Still Hasn’t Answered These 10 Serious Questions Raised About...
Noam Galai/Getty Images A week ago today, former long-time Today show host Matt Lauer finally published, here on Mediaite, his in-depth investigation into Ronan Farrow’s 2019 book that accused him of...
View ArticleFormer MIT Fundraising Staffer Claims Ronan Farrow’s ‘Botched’ Epstein...
Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images Peter Cohen, a former staffer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, accused The New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow of publishing “botched” reporting — on late sex offender...
View ArticleAllen v. Farrow Filmmakers Respond to Woody Allen Calling Documentary a...
Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images Filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering, the duo behind the HBO documentary Allen v. Farrow, have responded to Woody Allen bashing their series. Allen and his wife,...
View Article‘That Was a Scandal’: Ken Auletta Condemns NBC’s ‘Outrageous’ Handling of...
“Ronan Farrow was vindicated in my mind,” says Ken Auletta. “And NBC was not.” It’s a damning verdict from the legendary media reporter and New Yorker writer — whose new book on Harvey Weinstein...
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