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Ronan Farrow
Ronan Farrow is an investigative reporter and a contributing writer to The New Yorker. He is also currently producing documentaries for HBO and podcasts for Audible. His stories for The New Yorker exposed the first sexual-assault allegations against the movie producer Harvey Weinstein and the first misconduct allegations against CBS executives, including then CEO Leslie Moonves. He was also responsible for the first detailed accounts of payments made by the National Enquirer’s parent company in order to suppress stories about Donald Trump during the 2016 Presidential campaign. For his reporting on Weinstein, Farrow won the Pulitzer Prize for public service, the National Magazine Award, and the George Polk Award, among other honors. He previously worked as an anchor and investigative reporter at MSNBC and NBC News.
Farrow is the author of War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence and Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators. The Catch and Kill Podcast was nominated for a Peabody Award and surpassed over 9 million downloads, and was made into a limited documentary series, Catch and Kill: The Podcast Tapes now streaming on HBO. He is executive producer of the documentary film Endangered (2022) on the threats faced by journalists around the world.
Farrow is a graduate of Yale Law School and a member of the New York Bar. He recently completed a Ph.D. in political science at Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Prior to his career in journalism, he served as a State Department official in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He lives in New York.
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