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Megan Twohey
Megan Twohey (/ˈtuːi/ TOO-ee) is an American journalist. She is an investigative reporter at The New York Times and previously reported for Reuters, the Chicago Tribune, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
On October 5, 2017, Twohey and fellow Times journalist Jodi Kantor published a report about Harvey Weinstein detailing decades of sexual abuse allegations, and more than 80 women publicly accused Weinstein of sexually abusing or assaulting them. The story led to Weinstein's firing and helped to ignite the viral #MeToo movement started by the American activist Tarana Burke. That work was honored in 2018, when The New York Times was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Kantor and Twohey won the George Polk award and were named to Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people of the year. Twohey and Kantor subsequently authored a 2019 book, She Said, which chronicled their report about Weinstein and was adapted into a film of the same name in 2022. In addition to winning the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, Twohey was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2014.
Twohey was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Evanston, Illinois. Twohey's parents were both involved in news media; her mother Mary Jane Twohey was a television news producer and her father John Twohey was an editor for the Chicago Tribune.
She went to Evanston Township High School, then attended Georgetown University, graduating in 1998 with a Bachelor's degree in American studies. While in college, she interned at the ABC News production Nightline.
After graduating from Georgetown, Twohey wrote for Washington Monthly and the National Journal before spending a year in Moscow as a reporter for The Moscow Times. In 2002, she became a general assignment reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, then began writing investigations at the Chicago Tribune. She reported for Reuters before joining The New York Times in 2016, first focusing on Donald Trump's tax history, possible business ties to Russia, and his past treatment of women.
In 2009, Twohey reported in the Chicago Tribune that several suburban police departments around Chicago were not submitting all rape kits for testing. In the following year, Illinois became the first U.S. state to require every rape kit be tested, and many other states in the U.S. followed soon after.
From 2010 to 2011, Twohey published a series of articles in the Chicago Tribune detailing cases of doctors who had been convicted of violent felonies or sex crimes and were still practicing and abusing patients. Her reporting has been credited for leading to new legislation and policies in Illinois aimed at protecting patients, for example requiring background checks for healthcare providers.
In 2013, Twohey published an investigative report in Reuters News that detailed how some people in the United States were using the internet to find places to abandon their adopted children. Several segments of this story were broadcast on the Nightly News and the Today Show on NBC. She received a Sydney Award and the Michael Kelly Award for her work revealing these underground networks. Twohey was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for this work.
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Megan Twohey
Megan Twohey (/ˈtuːi/ TOO-ee) is an American journalist. She is an investigative reporter at The New York Times and previously reported for Reuters, the Chicago Tribune, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
On October 5, 2017, Twohey and fellow Times journalist Jodi Kantor published a report about Harvey Weinstein detailing decades of sexual abuse allegations, and more than 80 women publicly accused Weinstein of sexually abusing or assaulting them. The story led to Weinstein's firing and helped to ignite the viral #MeToo movement started by the American activist Tarana Burke. That work was honored in 2018, when The New York Times was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. Kantor and Twohey won the George Polk award and were named to Time magazine's list of 100 most influential people of the year. Twohey and Kantor subsequently authored a 2019 book, She Said, which chronicled their report about Weinstein and was adapted into a film of the same name in 2022. In addition to winning the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, Twohey was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2014.
Twohey was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Evanston, Illinois. Twohey's parents were both involved in news media; her mother Mary Jane Twohey was a television news producer and her father John Twohey was an editor for the Chicago Tribune.
She went to Evanston Township High School, then attended Georgetown University, graduating in 1998 with a Bachelor's degree in American studies. While in college, she interned at the ABC News production Nightline.
After graduating from Georgetown, Twohey wrote for Washington Monthly and the National Journal before spending a year in Moscow as a reporter for The Moscow Times. In 2002, she became a general assignment reporter for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, then began writing investigations at the Chicago Tribune. She reported for Reuters before joining The New York Times in 2016, first focusing on Donald Trump's tax history, possible business ties to Russia, and his past treatment of women.
In 2009, Twohey reported in the Chicago Tribune that several suburban police departments around Chicago were not submitting all rape kits for testing. In the following year, Illinois became the first U.S. state to require every rape kit be tested, and many other states in the U.S. followed soon after.
From 2010 to 2011, Twohey published a series of articles in the Chicago Tribune detailing cases of doctors who had been convicted of violent felonies or sex crimes and were still practicing and abusing patients. Her reporting has been credited for leading to new legislation and policies in Illinois aimed at protecting patients, for example requiring background checks for healthcare providers.
In 2013, Twohey published an investigative report in Reuters News that detailed how some people in the United States were using the internet to find places to abandon their adopted children. Several segments of this story were broadcast on the Nightly News and the Today Show on NBC. She received a Sydney Award and the Michael Kelly Award for her work revealing these underground networks. Twohey was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for this work.