Flashback Friday: Jodi Kantor Chases the Truth

<p>Jess here! This week, I’m coming to you from somewhere in Indiana, tired but happy. Getting out on the road and speaking to students, teachers, and communities is both exhausting and incredibly invigorating, and this week I got to speak to a classroom of student writers, kids who are just learning about the basics of researching, writing, and even podcasting. There’s nothing I love more. </p><p>When I’m in these classrooms, and especially when I’m talking to kids looking to change the world by writing for their school papers as they dream about breaking big stories like <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-allegations.html">the Harvey Weinstein saga</a>, I always recommend Jodi Kantor and Meghan Twohey’s essential text, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.shesaidthebook.com/">Chasing the Truth: A Young Journalist’s Guide to Investigative Reporting</a>. </p><p>Enjoy! </p><p></p><p><em>New York Times</em> investigative journalists <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/search?query=jodi+kantor">Jodi Kantor</a> and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/search?dropmab=true&#38;query=megan%20twohey&#38;sort=best">Megan Twohey</a> broke <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-allegations.html">the story of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assaults</a> in 2017 and harassment and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/new-york-times-reporting-led-jodi-kantor-and-megan-twohey-and-new-yorker-reporting-ronan">won a Pulitzer Prize for their efforts</a>. Their book about the Weinstein investigation, <em>She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement</em><em>,</em> came out in 2019 and the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14807308/">film version</a> will be out this November.</p><p>Now, Jodi and Megan offer the lessons of their investigation - the process involved and the rules that governed its publication - to student journalists so t