One problem, in Mr. Oppenheim’s view, was the lack of on-the-record, on-camera interviews. 
  
 “We repeatedly made clear to Ronan and Rich McHugh the standard for publication is we needed at least one credible on-the-record victim or witness of misconduct,” Mr. Oppenheim said. “And we never met that threshold while Ronan was reporting for us.” 
  
 Mr. Oppenheim added that the day before the planned trip, Mr. Farrow had asked to pursue the story for another outlet. 
  
 “Ronan reached out to us and said: ‘I want to get this out now. I have a magazine that’s willing to do it. Will you be O.K. if I take the reporting to this magazine?’” Mr. Oppenheim said. “And we granted him permission to do so.” 
  
 Soon after that mid-August conversation, however, Mr. Farrow, whom NBC described as a nonexclusive contributor, requested the use of an NBC camera crew for the interview in Los Angeles. That request seemed to suggest that he was open to staying on the story for the network. Mr. Oppenheim shot down the request, severing the network’s relationship with the reporter. 
  
 Mr. Oppenheim recalled the conversation: “We said: ‘You’ve asked for permission to go elsewhere. You can’t use an NBC camera crew for another outlet. You can do whatever you want to do. And you don’t work for us.’” 
  
 Mr. Farrow implied that the network had mishandled his work during an appearance on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC program that aired shortly after the publication of his first Weinstein article. “I walked into the door at The New Yorker with an explosively reportable piece that should have been public earlier,” he said. 
  
 On Twitter last fall, Mr. Farrow praised Mr. McHugh, saying he had “refused to bow to pressure to stop, through numerous shoots, even when it meant risking his job.” He also called him an “unsung hero of this entire story.” ||||| The producer who worked alongside Ronan Farrow at NBC News on his Harvey Weinstein investigation quit in protest earlier this month. 
  
 Rich McHugh tendered his resignation on Friday, Aug. 17, a year to the day that the Weinstein story left with Farrow. Since then, Farrow has won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles that revealed allegations of sexual harassment and assault—and questions have lingered about why the network gave up on the story that helped launch the #MeToo movement. 
  
 NBC News has long insisted the Weinstein exposé wasn’t ready to run on air or online, contrary to Farrow’s claims that it was. Farrow’s story, which ultimately ran in The New Yorker, was part of a series that ultimately won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, earned him in the prestigious George Polk Award for National Reporting, and garnered near-universal praise from his colleagues. 
  
 The Daily Beast has uncovered new details of how the process went awry, including alleged threats from NBC, back-biting inside the network about who was truly responsible, and a previously unreported ultimatum by Weinstein’s attorneys. 
  
 According to multiple sources familiar with the matter, NBCUniversal deputy general counsel Susan Weiner made a series of phone calls to Farrow, threatening to smear him if he continued to report on Weinstein. 
  
 A spokesperson for NBC News, speaking on the condition of anonymity, vigorously denied those allegations. “Absolutely false,” the spokesperson told The Daily Beast. “There’s no truth to that all. There is no chance, in no version of the world, that Susan Weiner would tell Ronan Farrow what he could or could not report on. 
  
 “The sole point of the Susan Weiner’s conversation with Farrow, roughly a month after he had left NBC, was to make sure he wasn’t still telling sources that he was working on the story for NBC since he had moved on to The New Yorker.” 
  
 In February 2015, Farrow lost his daytime show on MSNBC and began working with NBC News’ investigative unit. In November 2016, Farrow and a producer named Rich McHugh decided they wanted to do a story about Hollywood’s “casting couch,” the longtime practice of producers and other powerful men exchanging sex with women for film roles, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. The story was timed to be released around the Academy Awards, these sources said. 
  
 They presented the idea to NBC News President Noah Oppenheim, who suggested the team look into a October 2016 tweet by actress Rose McGowan that she was raped by a Hollywood executive, according to two sources with knowledge of the investigation. 
  
 Over the next several months, Farrow collected evidence that suggested Weinstein had a pattern of inappropriate behavior toward women, according to the sources and previous reporting by The Daily Beast, HuffPost, and The New York Times. Weinstein has repeatedly denied all allegations of non-consensual sex. Sources familiar with the matter previously told The Daily Beast that at least eight women accusing Weinstein had agreed to go on camera, including two alleged victims with their names and faces. 
  
 In an interview with The New York Times published Thursday night, McHugh accused “the very highest levels of NBC” of later stopping the reporting. 
  
 “There was not one single victim or witness to misconduct by Harvey Weinstein who was willing to go on the record. Not one,” the spokesperson told The Daily Beast. 
  
 By February, according to the sources, Farrow had secured an on-the-record interview with McGowan in which the actress said she had been sexually harassed by a powerful producer, though she did not name Weinstein. (McGowan subsequently named Weinstein during the NBC investigation, according to a source with knowledge of the story, but reportedly pulled her interview after being legally threatened by Weinstein, who had reached a $100,000 settlement with her in 1997 after she accused him of sexual assault.) 
  
 Farrow and McHugh also obtained a bombshell audio recording from a NYPD sting in which Weinstein admitted to groping Filipina-Italian model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez in 2015. (The Battilana audio was subsequently published by The New Yorker.) 
  
 “The tape on its own was color, it added to an already known accusation,” an NBC spokesperson said. While it was “absolutely significant” to hear Battilana’s voice, the spokesperson said, the tape alone would not expose Weinstein as serial sexual predator, as has been alleged. 
  
 NBC’s reluctance stoked Farrow and McHugh’s concerns about NBC’s commitment to the story, the sources said. Farrow did not respond to a request for comment. Ari Wilkenfeld, McHugh’s attorney, told The Daily Beast that his client “has no comment.” 
  
 In spring 2017, according to the sources, Farrow played Oppenheim the audio of Weinstein with Battilana admitting that he was “used to” groping women’s breasts. At one point during their meeting, according to two sources, Oppenheim had asked if people still cared about Weinstein. 
  
 “ Farrow played Oppenheim the audio of Weinstein with Battilana admitting that he was ‘used to’ groping women’s breasts. According to two sources, Oppenheim asked if people still cared about Weinstein. ” 
  
 “That is absolutely false,” a NBC spokesperson said, “and it is clearly contradicted by the fact that Oppenheim assigned the story on Harvey Weinstein in the first place. Obviously he understood him to be and believed him to be a newsworthy figure.” 
  
 Farrow had begun to suspect that Oppenheim—who moonlighted as a Hollywood screenwriter—was potentially communicating with Weinstein directly about the story, according to the sources. 
  
 During a meeting in summer 2017, Oppenheim mentioned to Farrow that Weinstein had raised objections to Farrow’s reporting—even though Farrow had not yet asked Weinstein to comment on the allegations, according to individuals briefed on the meeting. 
  
 “Externally, I had Weinstein associates calling me repeatedly,” McHugh told the Times. “I knew that Weinstein was calling NBC executives directly. One time it even happened when we were in the room.” 
  
 HuffPost reported last year that Oppenheim had relayed concerns from Weinstein’s lawyers that Farrow could not report the story because the producer had worked with his estranged father, director Woody Allen. “No, absolutely not, and Noah Oppenheim never had a conversation with Harvey Weinstein about the content of NBC News’ investigation,” the network spokesperson said. 
  
 By August 2017, Farrow was prepared to fly to California to interview a woman who was going to claim in silhouette on camera that Weinstein had raped her, according to the sources. Farrow wanted to publish this interview and what he had already gathered, but network higher-ups said he needed more and would not allow Farrow to use an NBC News crew for the interview, according to a person familiar with the matter. 
  
 “Three days before Ronan and I were going to head to L.A. to interview a woman with a credible rape allegation against Harvey Weinstein,” McHugh told the Times, “I was ordered to stop, not to interview this woman. And to stand down on the story altogether.” 
  
 In an interview with the Times, Oppenheim recalled telling Farrow, “You can’t use an NBC camera crew for another outlet. You can do whatever you want to do. And you don’t work for us.” 
  
 Farrow went ahead with the interview anyway, paying for a camera crew out of his own pocket, according to sources. 
  
 “The reason the reporting stopped here is because Ronan asked to take it elsewhere because NBC News’ determination at the time was that you don’t have it yet,” the network spokesperson told The Daily Beast. 
  
 Dejected, Farrow approached longtime New Yorker media writer Ken Auletta seeking advice about what to do with his reporting and where to take the story. Farrow had interviewed Auletta, who had twice previously attempted to report news about Weinstein’s alleged behavior, for the NBC story the previous month. Auletta suggested bringing the story to The New Yorker and called Editor in Chief David Remnick, who accepted the idea. 
  
 According to multiple sources, Weinstein attorney Charles Harder claimed in legal threats to Farrow and others that NBC News gave them written assurances that Farrow would not use any reporting he obtained about Weinstein during his time at the network. Harder did not respond to The Daily Beast’s request for comment. 
  
 “We immediately were clear with Weinstein’s legal team that we disputed the characterizations,” the NBC spokesperson told The Daily Beast. 
  
 Despite letters from Weinstein’s attorneys, Farrow and The New Yorker decided to press on and eventually published the piece just days after The New York Times released its own bombshell report about Weinstein’s history of alleged sexual misconduct and the use of settlements and nondisclosure agreements to silence accusers. 
  
 Immediately after Farrow published his bombshell at The New Yorker, top figures at NBC began pointing fingers at each other, two sources said. 
  
 While Oppenheim told staffers at a division-wide town hall meeting that he took responsibility for the decision to let the story go, he privately told at least one colleague that NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack and Senior Communications Vice President Mark Kornblau had made him a scapegoat. 
  
 “He said to me, ‘It wasn’t my decision,’” said the colleague who spoke to Oppenheim after Farrow’s story was published at The New Yorker. “‘Mark Kornblau and Andy Lack are trying to throw me under the bus when it was Andy’s decision,’” the colleague recalled Oppenheim saying. 
  
 “This conversation is made up out of whole cloth, never happened. There is no daylight between Andy and Noah,” the spokesperson said. 
  
 While multiple higher-ups at NBC have repeatedly attempted to dismiss criticism of the network’s failure to publish the Weinstein story, questions about NBC’s decision are likely to cause more headaches in the coming months. 
  
 Earlier this year, publisher Little, Brown announced it was publishing a book by Farrow entitled Catch & Kill, in which he is expected to share his recollection of NBC’s decisions around the Weinstein story and report more broadly on the conspiracy of silence that protects powerful men. 
  
 — with additional reporting by Lloyd Grove 
  
 Correction: A previous version of this article misstated Weiner’s title. We regret the error. |||||
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– Soon after Ronan Farrow's Pulitzer Prize-winning expose on Harvey Weinstein ran in the New Yorker came word that he had originally been working on the piece for NBC News. Farrow said the network dropped the story, and when initially asked why, he said, "You would have to ask NBC and NBC executives about the details." Now, those details may be emerging, at least via a former producer with the network who spoke to the New York Times and via the Daily Beast's sources. NBC News very vocally denies the new claim that it tried to kill the story, and Farrow had no comment. The Beast lays out a timeline dating to November 2016, when Farrow and producer Rich McHugh decided to report on Hollywood's infamous "casting couch" and were reportedly advised by NBC News President Noah Oppenheim to look into Rose McGowan's October 2016 tweet about rape at the hands of a Hollywood exec.
Ett problem, enligt Oppenheims åsikt, var bristen på intervjuer på skivan, på kameran. “Vi upprepade gånger klargjorde för Ronan och Rich McHugh standarden för publicering är att vi behövde minst ett trovärdigt på-skivan offer eller vittne till tjänstefel,” Mr Oppenheim sade. — Och vi mötte aldrig den tröskeln, medan Ronan anmälde sig för oss. tillade mr Oppenheim, att dagen före den planerade resan hade mr Farrow bett att få fullfölja berättelsen för ett annat utlopp. — Ronan sträckte ut sig till oss och sade: — Jag vill få ut det här nu. Jag har en tidskrift som är villig att göra det. Vill du vara ok. om jag tar med mig rapporteringen till denna tidskrift?’ sade herr Oppenheim. “Och vi gav honom tillåtelse att göra det.” Strax efter det där mitten av augusti samtalet, dock, Mr Farrow, som NBC beskrev som en icke-exklusiv bidragsgivare, begärde användning av en NBC kamerateam för intervjun i Los Angeles. Den begäran verkade antyda att han var öppen för att stanna på historien för nätverket. Mr Oppenheim sköt ner begäran och bröt nätverkets relation med reportern. Mr Oppenheim erinrade sig samtalet: — Vi sade: — Ni har bett om lov att få resa någon annanstans. Du kan inte använda en NBC kamera besättning för ett annat utlopp. Du kan göra vad du vill. Och du arbetar inte för oss.’” Mr Farrow antydde att nätverket hade felhanterat hans arbete under ett framträdande på Rachel Maddows MSNBC program som sändes strax efter publiceringen av hans första Weinstein artikel. — Jag gick in i dörren vid The New Yorker med en explosivt reportagebar pjäs, som borde ha varit offentlig tidigare, sade han. På Twitter förra hösten, Mr Farrow berömde Mr McHugh, säger att han hade "vägrat att böja sig för trycket att stoppa, genom många skott, även när det innebar att riskera sitt jobb." Han kallade honom också en "osung hjälte av hela denna historia." ^ "Producenten som arbetade tillsammans Ronan Farrow på NBC News på hans Harvey Weinstein undersökning slutade i protest tidigare i månaden. Rich McHugh lämnade in sin avskedsansökan fredagen den 17 augusti, ett år till den dag då Weinsteinberättelsen lämnade hos Farrow. Sedan dess har Farrow vunnit ett Pulitzerpris för en serie artiklar som avslöjade anklagelser om sexuella trakasserier och övergrepp – och frågor har dröjat kvar om varför nätverket gav upp historien som hjälpte till att lansera #MeToo-rörelsen. NBC News har länge insisterat på Weinstein exposé var inte redo att köra på luft eller online, i motsats till Farrows påståenden att det var. Farrows berättelse, som i slutändan kördes i The New Yorker, var en del av en serie som slutligen vann Pulitzerpriset för public service 2018, tjänade honom i den prestigefyllda George Polk Award för National Reporting, och fick nära-universellt beröm från sina kollegor. The Daily Beast har avslöjat nya detaljer om hur processen gick snett, inklusive påstådda hot från NBC, bakåt-bitning inne i nätverket om vem som var verkligt ansvarig, och ett tidigare orapporterat ultimatum av Weinsteins advokater. Enligt flera källor som kände till saken, gjorde NBCuniversal vice general counsel Susan Weiner en rad telefonsamtal till Farrow, och hotade att smutskasta honom om han fortsatte att rapportera om Weinstein. En talesman för NBC News, som talade under förutsättning av anonymitet, förnekade kraftfullt dessa anklagelser. “Absolut falskt,” talade talespersonen berättade The Daily Beast. — Det finns ingen sanning i det hela. Det finns ingen chans, i någon version av världen, att Susan Weiner skulle berätta för Ronan Farrow vad han kunde eller inte kunde rapportera om. “Den enda poängen med Susan Weiner samtal med Farrow, ungefär en månad efter att han hade lämnat NBC, var att se till att han inte fortfarande berätta källor att han arbetade på historien för NBC eftersom han hade gått vidare till The New Yorker.” I februari 2015 förlorade Farrow sin dagshow på MSNBC och började arbeta med NBC News undersökande enhet. I november 2016 bestämde Farrow och en producent vid namn Rich McHugh att de ville göra en berättelse om Hollywoods "kastsoffa", den långa praxisen hos producenter och andra mäktiga män som byter sex med kvinnor mot filmroller, enligt flera källor som är bekanta med saken. Berättelsen var tajmad att släppas runt Oscarsgalan, sade dessa källor. De presenterade idén för NBC News president Noah Oppenheim, som föreslog laget titta in i en oktober 2016 tweet av skådespelerskan Rose McGowan att hon våldtogs av en Hollywood-chef, enligt två källor med kunskap om utredningen. Under de följande månaderna samlade Farrow in bevis som tydde på att Weinstein hade ett mönster av olämpligt beteende mot kvinnor, enligt källorna och tidigare rapportering av The Daily Beast, HuffPost och The New York Times. Weinstein har upprepade gånger förnekat alla anklagelser om icke-samstämmigt sex. Källor som kände till saken tidigare berättade för The Daily Beast att minst åtta kvinnor som anklagade Weinstein hade gått med på att gå med på att filma, däribland två påstådda offer med sina namn och ansikten. I en intervju med The New York Times publicerad torsdag kväll anklagade McHugh “de allra högsta nivåerna av NBC” för att senare stoppa rapporteringen. "Det fanns inte ett enda offer eller vittne till tjänstefel av Harvey Weinstein som var villig att gå in på protokollet. Inte en enda,” talespersonen berättade The Daily Beast. I februari hade Farrow enligt källorna säkrat en intervju på skivan med McGowan där skådespelerskan sade att hon hade blivit sexuellt trakasserad av en kraftfull producent, även om hon inte namngav Weinstein. (McGowan döpte därefter Weinstein under NBC-utredningen, enligt en källa med kännedom om berättelsen, men uppges ha dragit sin intervju efter att ha blivit juridiskt hotad av Weinstein, som hade nått en uppgörelse på 100 000 dollar med henne 1997 efter att hon anklagat honom för sexuella övergrepp.) Farrow och McHugh skaffade sig också en ljudinspelning från ett New York-polisen-stick där Weinstein erkände att han famlade Filipina-italiensk modell Ambra Battilana Gutierrez 2015. (Battilana-ljudet publicerades senare av The New Yorker.) "Bandet på egen hand var färg, det lade till en redan känd anklagelse," en NBC talesperson sade. Medan det var “absolut betydande” att höra Battilanas röst, sade talespersonen, bandet ensam skulle inte avslöja Weinstein som seriell sexuell rovdjur, som har hävdats. NBC:s motvilja retade Farrow och McHugh oro över NBC:s engagemang för berättelsen, sade källorna. Farrow svarade inte på en begäran om synpunkter. Ari Wilkenfeld, McHugh advokat, berättade The Daily Beast att hans klient “har ingen kommentar.” Under våren 2017, enligt källorna, Farrow spelade Oppenheim ljudet av Weinstein med Battilana erkänna att han var “van att” famla kvinnors bröst. Vid ett tillfälle under sitt möte hade Oppenheim enligt två källor frågat om folk fortfarande brydde sig om Weinstein. ” Farrow spelade Oppenheim ljudet av Weinstein med Battilana erkänna att han var "van att" famla kvinnors bröst. Enligt två källor frågade Oppenheim om folk fortfarande brydde sig om Weinstein. ”Det är helt falskt”, sade en NBC-talesman, ”och det motsägs tydligt av att Oppenheim tilldelat historien på Harvey Weinstein i första hand. Uppenbarligen förstod han att han var och trodde att han var en nyhetsvärdig figur.” Farrow hade börjat misstänka att Oppenheim – som extraknäckte som Hollywood-manusförfattare – potentiellt kommunicerade med Weinstein direkt om berättelsen, enligt källorna. Under ett möte sommaren 2017 nämnde Oppenheim för Farrow att Weinstein hade rest invändningar mot Farrows rapportering – trots att Farrow ännu inte hade bett Weinstein att kommentera anklagelserna, enligt enskilda informerade om mötet. — Utomjordiskt hade jag Weinsteins medarbetare som upprepade gånger kallade mig, sade McHugh till Times. "Jag visste att Weinstein ringde NBC chefer direkt. En gång hände det till och med när vi var i rummet.” HuffPost rapporterade förra året att Oppenheim hade vidarebefordrat oro från Weinsteins advokater att Farrow inte kunde rapportera historien eftersom producenten hade arbetat med sin främmande far, regissören Woody Allen. “Nej, absolut inte, och Noah Oppenheim hade aldrig ett samtal med Harvey Weinstein om innehållet i NBC News utredning,” nätverkets talesperson sade. I augusti 2017 var Farrow beredd att flyga till Kalifornien för att intervjua en kvinna som skulle hävda i silhuett på kamera att Weinstein hade våldtagit henne, enligt källorna. Farrow ville publicera denna intervju och vad han redan hade samlat, men nätverk högre upp sade att han behövde mer och inte skulle tillåta Farrow att använda en NBC News besättning för intervjun, enligt en person som känner till saken. "Tre dagar innan Ronan och jag skulle åka till L.A. för att intervjua en kvinna med en trovärdig våldtäkt anklagelse mot Harvey Weinstein," McHugh berättade Times, "Jag beordrades att sluta, inte att intervjua denna kvinna. Och att avhålla sig från historien helt och hållet.” I en intervju med Times, erinrade Oppenheim sig och sade till Farrow, ”Du kan inte använda en NBC kamerateam för ett annat utlopp. Du kan göra vad du vill. Och du arbetar inte för oss. "Farrow gick vidare med intervjun ändå, betala för en kamera besättning ur sin egen ficka, enligt källor. “Anledningen till att rapporteringen stannade här är eftersom Ronan bad att ta det någon annanstans eftersom NBC News’ beslutsamhet på den tiden var att du inte har det ännu,” nätverket talesperson berättade The Daily Beast. Förtvivlad närmade sig Farrow länge New Yorker mediaförfattaren Ken Auletta och sökte råd om vad han skulle göra med sin rapportering och vart han skulle ta berättelsen. Farrow hade intervjuat Auletta, som två gånger tidigare hade försökt rapportera nyheter om Weinsteins påstådda beteende, för NBC-berättelsen föregående månad. Auletta föreslog att man skulle föra berättelsen till The New Yorker och kallade chefredaktör David Remnick, som accepterade idén. Enligt flera källor hävdade Weinsteins advokat Charles Harder i juridiska hot mot Farrow och andra att NBC News gav dem skriftliga försäkringar om att Farrow inte skulle använda någon rapportering han fått om Weinstein under sin tid på nätverket. Hårdare svarade inte på The Daily Beasts begäran om kommentarer. "Vi var omedelbart klart med Weinstein juridiska team att vi ifrågasatte karakteriseringarna," NBC talesperson berättade The Daily Beast. Trots brev från Weinsteins advokater beslöt Farrow och The New Yorker att trycka på och publicerade så småningom stycket bara dagar efter att The New York Times släppt sin egen bombshellrapport om Weinsteins historia av påstådda sexuella oredligheter och användandet av uppgörelser och sekretessavtal för att tysta anklagare. Omedelbart efter att Farrow publicerat sitt bombskal på The New Yorker började toppfigurer på NBC peka finger åt varandra, sade två källor. Medan Oppenheim berättade för medarbetare på ett divisionsomfattande rådhusmöte att han tog ansvar för beslutet att släppa historien, berättade han privat för åtminstone en kollega att NBC News ordförande Andrew Lack och Senior Communications vicepresident Mark Kornblau hade gjort honom till syndabock. — Han sade till mig: 'Det var inte mitt beslut', sade kollegan som talade med Oppenheim efter att Farrows berättelse publicerats på The New Yorker. “”Mark Kornblau och Andy Lack försöker kasta mig under bussen när det var Andys beslut,””kollegan erinrade Oppenheim säga. — Det här samtalet är påhittat av hel duk, det har aldrig hänt. Det finns inget dagsljus mellan Andy och Noah, sade talespersonen. Medan flera högre upp på NBC har upprepade gånger försökt avfärda kritik av nätverkets misslyckande att publicera Weinstein story, frågor om NBC: s beslut är sannolikt att orsaka mer huvudvärk under de kommande månaderna. Tidigare i år, förlaget Little, Brown meddelade att det publicerade en bok av Farrow med titeln Catch & Kill, där han förväntas dela sitt minne av NBC: s beslut kring Weinstein historien och rapportera mer allmänt om konspirationen av tystnad som skyddar mäktiga män. — med ytterligare rapportering av Lloyd Grove Rättning: En tidigare version av denna artikel misstade Weiners titel. Vi beklagar misstaget. Vad är en sammanfattning av ovanstående artikel?
One problem, in Oppenheim's opinion, was the lack of interviews on the record, on the camera. “We repeatedly clarified to Ronan and Rich McHugh the standard for publication is that we needed at least one credible on-record victim or witness to misconduct,” Mr. Oppenheim said. “And we never met that threshold, while Ronan signed up for us. Mr. Oppenheim added that on the day before the planned trip Mr. Farrow had asked to finish the story for another outlet. — Ronan reached out to us and said: — I want to get this out now. I have a magazine that is willing to do so. You want to be okay? if I bring the report to this magazine?’ said Mr Oppenheim. “And we gave him permission to do that.” Shortly after that mid-August call, however, Mr. Farrow, whom NBC described as a non-exclusive contributor, requested the use of an NBC camera team for the interview in Los Angeles. That request seemed to suggest that he was open to staying on the story for the network. Mr. Oppenheim shot down the request and broke the network's relationship with the reporter. Mr. Oppenheim recalled the conversation: — We said: — You have asked permission to travel elsewhere. You can't use an NBC camera crew for another outlet. You can do whatever you want. And you don’t work for us.’” Mr. Farrow indicated that the network had mismanaged his work during an appearance on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC program that aired shortly after the publication of his first Weinstein article. “I entered the door at The New Yorker with an explosively reportable play, which should have been public earlier,” he said. On Twitter last fall, Mr. Farrow praised Mr. McHugh, saying he had "refused to bow to the pressure to stop, through many shots, even when it meant risking his job." He also called him an "unyoung hero of this whole story." ^ "The producer who worked together Ronan Farrow on NBC News on his Harvey Weinstein survey ended in protest earlier in the month. Rich McHugh filed his resignation on Friday, August 17, one year to the day the Weinstein story left with Farrow. Since then, Farrow has won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles that revealed allegations of sexual harassment and abuse – and questions have lingered on why the network gave up history that helped launch the #MeToo movement. NBC News has long insisted on Weinstein exposé was not ready to run on air or online, as opposed to Farrow's claims that it was. Farrow's story, ultimately run in The New Yorker, was part of a series that finally won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2018, earned him in the prestigious George Polk Award for National Reporting, receiving close-universal praise from his colleagues. The Daily Beast has revealed new details of how the process went wrong, including alleged threats from NBC, back-biting inside the network about who was truly responsible, and a previously unreported ultimatum by Weinstein's lawyers. According to several sources who knew about it, NBCuniversal deputy general Counsel Susan Weiner made a series of phone calls to Farrow, threatening to smear him if he continued to report on Weinstein. A spokesman for NBC News, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, forcefully denied these allegations. “Absolutely false,” spoke the spokesperson told The Daily Beast. “There is no truth to it all. There is no way, in any version of the world, that Susan Weiner would tell Ronan Farrow what he could or could not report. “The only point of Susan Weiner’s conversation with Farrow, about a month after he had left NBC, was to make sure he didn’t still tell sources that he was working on the story for NBC because he had moved on to The New Yorker.” In February 2015, Farrow lost his day show at MSNBC and began working with NBC News’ investigative unit. In November 2016, Farrow and a producer named Rich McHugh decided they wanted to make a story about Hollywood's "throw sofa", the long practice of producers and other powerful men trading sex with women for film roles, according to several sources familiar with the matter. The story was timed to be released around the Academy Awards, said these sources. They presented the idea to NBC News President Noah Oppenheim, who proposed the team look into an October 2016 tweet by actress Rose McGowan that she was raped by a Hollywood manager, according to two sources with knowledge of the investigation. In the following months, Farrow collected evidence suggesting that Weinstein had a pattern of inappropriate behaviour towards women, according to the sources and previous reporting of The Daily Beast, HuffPost and The New York Times. Weinstein has repeatedly denied all allegations of non-consistent sex. Sources who knew the matter earlier told The Daily Beast that at least eight women who accused Weinstein had agreed to agree to film, including two alleged victims with their names and faces. In an interview with The New York Times published Thursday night, McHugh accused “the very highest levels of NBC” of later stopping reporting. "There was not a single victim or witness of misconduct by Harvey Weinstein who was willing to go into the record. Not one,” the spokesperson told The Daily Beast. By February, Farrow had according to the sources secured an interview on the record with McGowan where the actress said she had been sexually harassed by a powerful producer, although she did not name Weinstein. (McGowan subsequently named Weinstein during the NBC investigation, according to a source with knowledge of the story, but reportedly drew her interview after being legally threatened by Weinstein, who had reached a $100,000 deal with her in 1997 after she accused him of sexual assault.) Farrow and McHugh also obtained a sound recording from a New York Police sting in which Weinstein admitted to groping Filipina-Italian model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez in 2015. (The Battilana sound was later published by The New Yorker.) "The band on its own was color, it added an already known charge," an NBC spokesperson said. While it was “absolutely significant” to hear Battilana’s voice, said the spokesperson, the band alone would not reveal Weinstein as serial sexual predators, who have been claimed. NBC's aversion provoked Farrow and McHugh concerns over NBC's commitment to the story, the sources said. Farrow did not reply to a request for comments. Ari Wilkenfeld, McHugh lawyer, told The Daily Beast that his client “has no comment.” In spring 2017, according to the sources, Farrow played Oppenheim the sound of Weinstein with Battilana admitting that he was “van to” groping women’s breasts. On one occasion during his meeting, Oppenheim had asked, according to two sources, whether people still cared about Weinstein. “ Farrow played Oppenheim the sound of Weinstein with Battilana admitting that he was "van to" groping women’s breasts. According to two sources, Oppenheim asked if people still cared about Weinstein. “It’s completely false,” said an NBC spokesman, “and that is clearly contradicted by Oppenheim assigning the story to Harvey Weinstein in the first place. Apparently he understood that he was and thought he was a newsworthy figure.” Farrow had begun to suspect that Oppenheim – who was extra-cracking as a Hollywood screenwriter – was potentially communicating with Weinstein directly about the story, according to the sources. During a meeting in the summer of 2017, Oppenheim mentioned to Farrow that Weinstein had raised objections to Farrow's reporting—although Farrow had not yet asked Weinstein to comment on the allegations, according to individuals informed about the meeting. “Extremely I had Weinstein’s associates who repeatedly called me,” McHugh told the Times. "I knew Weinstein called NBC executives right away. Once it even happened when we were in the room.” HuffPost reported last year that Oppenheim had forwarded concerns from Weinstein’s lawyers that Farrow could not report the story because the producer had worked with his foreign father, director Woody Allen. “No, absolutely not, and Noah Oppenheim never had a conversation with Harvey Weinstein about the content of the NBC News investigation,” the network spokesperson said. In August 2017, Farrow was prepared to fly to California to interview a woman who would claim in silhouette on camera that Weinstein had raped her, according to the sources. Farrow wanted to publish this interview and what he had already collected, but networks higher up said he needed more and would not allow Farrow to use an NBC News crew for the interview, according to a person who knows the matter. "Three days before Ronan and I were going to L.A. to interview a woman with a credible rape charge against Harvey Weinstein," McHugh told the Times, "I was ordered to stop, not to interview this woman. In an interview with the Times, Oppenheim recalled and told Farrow, “You can’t use an NBC camera team for another outlet. You can do whatever you want. And you don't work for us."Farrow went on with the interview anyway, paying for a camera crew out of his own pocket, according to sources. “The reason the reporting stayed here is because Ronan asked to take it elsewhere because NBC News’ determination at the time was that you don’t have it yet,” network spokesperson told The Daily Beast. Despaired, Farrow long approached New Yorker media writer Ken Auletta and sought advice on what to do with his reporting and where to take the story. Farrow had interviewed Auletta, who had twice previously attempted to report news of Weinstein's alleged behavior, for the NBC story the previous month. Auletta suggested bringing the story to The New Yorker and called editor-in-chief David Remnick, who accepted the idea. According to several sources, Weinstein's lawyer Charles Harder claimed in legal threats to Farrow and others that NBC News gave them written assurances that Farrow would not use any reporting he received about Weinstein during his time on the network. Harder did not respond to The Daily Beast's request for comments. "We were immediately clear with Weinstein legal team that we questioned the characterizations," NBC spokesperson told The Daily Beast. Despite letters from Weinstein's lawyers, Farrow and The New Yorker decided to press and eventually published the piece just days after The New York Times released their own bombshell report on Weinstein's history of alleged sexual misconduct and the use of settlements and confidentiality agreements to silence accusers. Immediately after Farrow published his bomb shell on The New Yorker, top figures on NBC began pointing fingers at each other, two sources said. While telling employees at a divisional council house meeting that he took responsibility for the decision to drop the story, Oppenheim privately told at least one colleague that NBC News chairman Andrew Lack and Senior Communications vice president Mark Kornblau had made him a scapegoat. — He said to me, ‘It wasn't my decision,' said the colleague who spoke to Oppenheim after Farrow's story was published on The New Yorker. “Mark Kornblau and Andy Lack are trying to throw me under the bus when it was Andy’s decision,” the colleague recalled Oppenheim say. “This conversation is made up of whole canvas, it never happened. There is no daylight between Andy and Noah, said the spokesperson. While several higher up on NBC have repeatedly attempted to dismiss criticism of the network's failure to publish Weinstein story, questions about NBC's decision are likely to cause more headaches in the coming months. Earlier this year, publisher Little, Brown announced that it published a book by Farrow titled Catch & Kill, where he is expected to share his memory of NBC's decision surrounding Weinstein history and report more generally on the conspiracy of silence protecting powerful men. — with further reporting by Lloyd Grove Correction: An earlier version of this article mistaken Weiner's title. We're sorry for the mistake. What is a summary of the above article?
– Strax efter Ronan Farrows Pulitzerprisbelönade avslöjande på Harvey Weinstein sprang i New Yorker kom beskedet att han ursprungligen hade arbetat på stycket för NBC News. Farrow sa att nätverket tappade storyn, och när han först frågade varför, sa han, "Du skulle behöva fråga NBC och NBC chefer om detaljerna." Dessa detaljer kan komma fram, åtminstone via en före detta producent med nätverket som talade med New York Times och via Daily Beasts källor. NBC News förnekar mycket högljutt det nya påståendet att man försökte döda berättelsen, och Farrow hade ingen kommentar. The Beast lägger ut en tidslinje som daterar sig till november 2016, då Farrow och producenten Rich McHugh bestämde sig för att rapportera på Hollywoods ökända "kastningssoffa" och enligt uppgift fick råd av NBC:s nyhetspresident Noah Oppenheim att titta in i Rose McGowans oktober 2016 tweet om våldtäkt i händerna på en Hollywood-chef.
– Shortly after Ronan Farrow's Pulitzer Prize-winning disclosure at Harvey Weinstein ran in New Yorker, the news came that he had originally worked on the piece for NBC News. Farrow said the network dropped the story, and when he first asked why, he said, "You'd have to ask NBC and NBC executives about the details." These details may emerge, at least through a former producer with the network talking to the New York Times and via Daily Beast sources. NBC News very loudly denies the new claim that they tried to kill the story, and Farrow had no comment. The Beast lays out a timeline dating to November 2016, when Farrow and producer Rich McHugh decided to report on Hollywood's infamous "casting couch" and reportedly was advised by NBC news president Noah Oppenheim to look into Rose McGowans October 2016 tweet about rape in the hands of a Hollywood executive.