NBC reportedly threatened a smear campaign against Ronan Farrow if he reported Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment allegations

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  • Journalist Ronan Farrow was not allowed to publish his reporting on the sexual harassment allegations against movie producer Harvey Weinstein while working at NBC News.
  • A new report in The Daily Beast said that NBC News' general counsel called him multiple times and threatened to launch a "smear" campaign against him if he kept reporting.
  • Rich McHugh, a producer Farrow worked with on the story, also said he was "ordered" by NBC executives to stop reporting on the story.
  • NBC News has denied all those allegations, saying instead that it was concerned about Farrow's sourcing.
  • The reasons behind NBC's refusal to publish Farrow's reporting are not clear. 
  • Farrow ultimately took his reporting to The New Yorker. His stories won him a Pulitzer prize.


NBC News executives allegedly threatened to launch a smear campaign against the journalist Ronan Farrow if he continued reporting on sexual allegations against Harvey Weinstein, The Daily Beast reported on Thursday

Farrow, who at the time worked at NBC News, had started investigating allegations of Weinstein's inappropriate behavior toward women as early as November 2016, The Beast said, citing unnamed sources.

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