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Jodi Kantor

Geboren: April 21, 1975 – New York City, New York, United States

Jodi Kantor is an American investigative journalist and author who writes about power, politics, gender, and institutions. A New York Times reporter, she coauthored She Said and wrote The Obamas. Her reporting with Megan Twohey on Harvey Weinstein helped ignite the #MeToo movement and contributed to a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation.

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Jodi Kantor’s path to journalism was indirect, but the detours became part of her method. A native New Yorker, she has described growing up in Staten Island and New Jersey in a household where the arrival of newspapers and magazines felt consequential. At Columbia, where she studied history, she wrote for the student paper, then left with a bruising lesson after being removed from it as a senior. Two years later she entered Harvard Law School, only to realize during her first semester that legal work was not her calling. Dropping out was risky and, by her own account, mortifying, but it was also the decision that allowed her to become what she had already been practicing: a close reader of power, language, and institutions. ((https://magazine.columbia.edu/print/pdf/node/13421))

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Campaigns use biography as a weapon. Our job is to reach behind the stories they’re telling and to tell the real one
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So I think the question is who protected the women and who protected Harvey Weinstein?
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-Me Too movement's "togetherness" splitting along partisan lines

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"Ashley Judd said Jodi Kantor's "hard work and impeccable journalism" changed attitudes, norms, laws and policies"

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"Carlos Lozada called Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey's She Said "an instant classic of investigative journalism."

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"Rich Lowry called Jodi Kantor's Weinstein investigation "the single most influential piece of journalism I can remember."

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