On 5 October 2017 two New York Times reporters broke a story that, in its own way, was as important and consequential as the Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein revelations in the Washington Post in the early 1970s. This earlier scoop revealed that the US president, Richard Nixon, had himself been involved in illicit and illegal acts, the exposure of which would eventually lead to his resignation as part of the Watergate scandal.
In 2017 it was two female journalists, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, who had the story. They reported that two decades earlier a powerful and famous male producer in the Hollywood film industry, Harvey Weinstein, had invited a young actress, Ashley Judd, to a Beverly Hills hotel for what Judd expected to be a professional business breakfast meeting.
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