page_title: Megan Twohey
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caption_attribution_description: English: Megan Twohey at the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes
context_page_description: Megan Twohey is an American journalist with The New York Times. She has also written investigative reports for Reuters, the Chicago Tribune and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She has investigated exploitive doctors, revealed untested rape kits, and uncovered a secret underground network of abandoned unwanted adopted children. Her investigative reports have led to criminal convictions and helped prompt new laws aimed at protecting vulnerable people and children.
  In 2017, Twohey and Jodi Kantor published a report about Harvey Weinstein detailing decades of sexual abuse allegations, and more than 80 women publicly accused Weinstein of sexually abuse or assault. This led to Weinstein's firing and helped start the viral #MeToo movement. 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 list of 100 most influential people of the year.
context_section_description: Megan Twohey is an American journalist with The New York Times. She has also written investigative reports for Reuters, the Chicago Tribune and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. She has investigated exploitive doctors, revealed untested rape kits, and uncovered a secret underground network of abandoned unwanted adopted children. Her investigative reports have led to criminal convictions and helped prompt new laws aimed at protecting vulnerable people and children. 
  In 2017, Twohey and Jodi Kantor published a report about Harvey Weinstein detailing decades of sexual abuse allegations, and more than 80 women publicly accused Weinstein of sexually abuse or assault. This led to Weinstein's firing and helped start the viral #MeToo movement. 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 list of 100 most influential people of the year. Twohey and Kantor's subsequent book, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement about the Weinstein investigation, was ranked as one 2019's best books by the New York Public Library, NPR, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Time. The New York Times itself said, "This book was one of our most anticipated titles of September". In addition to winning the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, Twohey was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 2014.
caption: Twohey at the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes
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