While court is adjourned until tomorrow in the Eaton County sentencing of former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar, but there is still news breaking around the case. The local police in Meridian Township convened a press conference Thursday afternoon apologize for their initial handling of allegations against Nassar by Brianne Randall-Gay in 2004. Randall-Gay, then…
Read moreDuring a highly anticipated interview with CBS This Morning, veteran journalist Ann Curry said she wasn’t surprised by allegations of sexual misconduct that brought down her former Today co-host Matt Lauer. In fact, Curry added that she felt most of her female colleagues understood that a “climate of verbal harassment” existed at NBC, where she…
Read moreIn the wake of a week when #TimesUp and #MeToo again dominated headlines—starting at the Golden Globes and continuing with allegations against James Franco—a new frontier in the conversation around sexual consent and coercion opened up over the weekend following unsettling allegations concerning actor and comedian Aziz Ansari. In a report posted January 13 on…
Read moreSeveral months after allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein began a wave of change regarding how sexual harassment allegations are handled at work, Vice Media has become the subject of a new New York Times investigation. The report, published December 23, shone light on four sexual harassment or defamation settlements and published more than two…
Read moreFollowing his swift termination from NBC’s Today, Matt Lauer has broken his silence about sexual harassment allegations that have been brought forward against him. Taking the form of a statement read by Savannah Guthrie at the start of Thursday morning’s broadcast, Lauer’s remarks acknowledged and apologized for some, but not all, of his reported behavior:…
Read moreAfter The New York Times published an explosive report detailing decades of sexual harassment allegations against Harvey Weinstein, dozens of women came forward with their own accusations against the Hollywood mogul. Within a week, Weinstein had been fired from his company and expelled from the Motion Picture Academy. Now, in a post-Weinstein world, legions of…
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