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Catch and Kill

Disciplines:
media
journalism
investigations
sexual assault

Summary

Ronan Farrow's 2019 account of investigating Harvey Weinstein — including the attempts by Weinstein, AMI (National Enquirer), and NBC to suppress the story — the definitive account of the #MeToo investigations.

Core Contribution

Creates the definitive account of #MeToo investigations — Catch and Kill documents not just the Weinstein investigation but the elaborate suppression machinery (catch-and-kill arrangements, private intelligence firms, corporate pressure on NBC) that protected powerful men from accountability; it is the most complete account of how institutional power is used to suppress journalism.

Historical Influences

New Yorker investigation All the President's Men

Intellectual Lineage

Ronan Farrow Little, Brown

Allied Works

She SaidAll the President's Men

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

Investigative journalism #MeToo documentation

Intellectual Posterity

Catch and Kill Catch and kill Harvey Weinstein suppression documented

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