When my colleagues and I were assembling a collection for the Museum at The Times in 2020, we asked the reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey for an artifact pertaining to their revelations of sexual abuse allegations against the movie producer Harvey Weinstein.
Two years earlier, Ms. Kantor and Ms. Twohey had been honored with a Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for public service for coverage of sexual misconduct that helped ignite the #MeToo movement. They shared the accolade with a team of colleagues, including Emily Steel and Michael S. Schmidt, and with Ronan Farrow of The New Yorker.
(Last month, the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, overturned Mr. Weinstein’s 2020 conviction on felony sex crime charges. The 4-to-3 decision concerned the conduct of the trial. His conviction in California still stands.)
Ms. Kantor and Ms. Twohey could have provided the museum with a memento of their monthslong investigative reporting, a story captured in their book, “She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement,” and the subsequent movie, “She Said.”
Instead, they offered a thank-you note they had received from a mother of four:
Dear Ms. Kantor and Ms. Twohey,
You have done what the women’s movement couldn’t, and have (finally) propelled us into the 21st century. On behalf of generations of women everywhere, I thank you. You are role models for my 3 daughters and son, and for everyone.
Sincerely, Carrie E.
P.S. (I will be a lifetime subscriber from now on)
The card has a prominent place in the museum, just inches away from the gold Pulitzer medal.
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