Portrait of Jodi Kantor

Jodi Kantor

I’m interested in stories that others assume can’t be told. In 2017, Megan Twohey and I broke the story of decades of sexual abuse allegations against the Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. Our work helped ignite the #MeToo movement and spur cultural, corporate and legal changes around the globe. We were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and other honors.

After I wrote about how tough it is for hourly workers to pump breast milk on the job, readers created the first lactation pod; thousands can now be found across the United States. My article about the havoc that automated scheduling systems caused for Starbucks workers helped spark a national fair-scheduling movement. Amazon introduced paternity leave after a colleague and I documented punishing workplace practices there.

Recently, I’ve been working to illuminate the Supreme Court, including the behind-the-scenes story of how the justices overturned the constitutional right to abortion, the troubled investigation into the leak of that opinion, and a secret influence effort by anti-abortion activists and another alleged breach. I broke news about two provocative flags, associated with efforts to overturn the 2020 election, displayed at the homes of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.

Whatever the topic, my mission is the same: to build people’s confidence in telling the truth, scrutinize the powerful, reflect the complexity and nuance of real life, never be intimidated, ensure that my sources stay safe, make independent assessments, and be fair to everyone involved.

Megan Twohey and I wrote “She Said,” our book about the Weinstein investigation, to take readers behind the scenes of this kind of work and show the impact that even a small number of truth-tellers can have. (It was adapted into a terrific film, though full disclosure: I’ve never done an interview while pushing a stroller.)

In my early 20s, I dropped out of law school to become a journalist and never looked back. I became the Arts & Leisure editor at The Times, a biographer of the Obamas, a once-in-a-while travel writer (my fantasy-escape job) and finally an investigative reporter.

It’s been an honor to earn the trust of many once-reluctant people: Syrian refugees, movie stars, Harvey Weinstein’s own accountant, people from the United States Supreme Court. Each relationship takes time and clear ground rules.

Like other Times reporters, I don’t participate in political events, donate to candidates or take public positions on issues. I want to come to every story with an open mind and be guided only by the truth. To anyone who assumes I have a certain political slant, I’d say: Harvey Weinstein was a lion of the liberal establishment.

I really appreciate hearing story tips. The best way to reach me is email. You can also follow my work on Instagram or X.

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    The Alitos and Their Flags

    The saga of a Supreme Court justice, his wife and two symbols adopted by people campaigning to overturn the result of the 2020 election.

    By Michael Barbaro, Jodi Kantor, Mooj Zadie, Eric Krupke, Luke Vander Ploeg, Michael Benoist, Lisa Chow, Marion Lozano, Dan Powell and Alyssa Moxley

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    How Election Deniers Claimed the Upside-Down Flag

    The practice started with sailors signaling distress but evolved into a form of protest, most recently among Trump supporters who believe the falsehood that the 2020 election was stolen.

    By Michael Levenson

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    Harvey Weinstein Conviction Thrown Out

    New York’s highest appeals court has overturned the movie producer’s 2020 conviction for sex crimes, which was a landmark in the #MeToo movement.

    By Katrin Bennhold, Jodi Kantor, Nina Feldman, Rikki Novetsky, Carlos Prieto, M.J. Davis Lin, Liz O. Baylen, Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop and Chris Wood

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    Behind the Scenes at the Dismantling of Roe v. Wade

    This is the inside story of how the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion — shooting down compromise and testing the boundaries of how the law is decided.

    By Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak

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    Inside the Supreme Court’s Dismantling of Roe

    The Supreme Court deliberates in secret. Insiders who speak can be cast out of the fold. This is the behind-the-scenes story of how the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion — shooting down compromise and testing the boundaries of how the law is decided.

    By Karen Hanley, Rebecca Suner and James Surdam

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    A Secret Campaign to Influence the Supreme Court

    Inside an evangelical minister’s yearslong effort.

    By Michael Barbaro, Rob Szypko, Luke Vander Ploeg, Mooj Zadie, Lisa Chow, Ben Calhoun, Marion Lozano, Dan Powell, Rowan Niemisto and Chris Wood

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    Supreme Court Defends Alito After Breach Allegation

    The court reiterated Justice Alito’s statement that neither he nor his wife disclosed a 2014 contraception ruling that a minister claims to have learned before it was public.

    By Jodi Kantor and Jo Becker

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    How to Measure the Impact of #MeToo?

    Five years after the movement took off — five years of accusations, verdicts and consequences — what does success look like?

    By Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

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    The Rise of Workplace Surveillance

    Is your productivity being electronically monitored by your bosses?

    By Michael Barbaro, Rikki Novetsky, Michael Simon Johnson, Mooj Zadie, Liz O. Baylen, Paige Cowett, Brad Fisher, Dan Powell, Marion Lozano and Elisheba Ittoop

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    The Rise of the Worker Productivity Score

    Across industries and incomes, more employees are being tracked, recorded and ranked. What is gained, companies say, is efficiency and accountability. What is lost?

    By Jodi Kantor, Arya Sundaram, Aliza Aufrichtig and Rumsey Taylor

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    Amazon vs. the Union

    The company and its new union share the same problem.

    By Jodi Kantor and Karen Weise

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    How Two Friends Beat Amazon and Built a Union

    A conversation with the warehouse workers who created the e-commerce giant’s first union against all odds.

    By Michael Barbaro, Diana Nguyen, Mooj Zadie, Clare Toeniskoetter, Kaitlin Roberts, Lisa Tobin, Mike Benoist, John Ketchum, Marion Lozano, Dan Powell and Chris Wood

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    How Two Best Friends Beat Amazon

    The company’s crackdown on a worker protest in New York backfired and led to a historic labor victory.

    By Jodi Kantor and Karen Weise

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    Cracking Amazon’s Worst H.R. Problem

    This week, Karen Weise, Grace Ashford and I revealed that as Amazon hit record profits, it fired, underpaid and mishandled employees seeking leaves for new parenthood or medical crises.

    By Jodi Kantor

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    Turmoil Was Brewing at Time’s Up Long Before Cuomo

    The prominent anti-harassment charity, criticized for its relationship with the former New York governor, is facing an identity crisis over its ties to those in power.

    By Jodi Kantor, Arya Sundaram, Melena Ryzik and Cara Buckley

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    The Morning Newsletter

    Andrew Cuomo and #MeToo

    It was a big news day: Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced his resignation, and the Senate passed a trillion-dollar infrastructure bill.

    By Jodi Kantor

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    News Analysis

    How Cuomo Took Advantage of #MeToo

    When a movement swept the world, the New York governor cast himself as its champion. But even as he signed protections and surrounded himself with feminists, he was committing fresh offenses, according to a new report.

    By Jodi Kantor and Arya Sundaram

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    The Amazon That Customers Don’t See

    Each year, hundreds of thousands of workers churn through a vast mechanism that hires and monitors, disciplines and fires. Amid the pandemic, the already strained system lurched.

    By Jodi Kantor, Karen Weise and Grace Ashford

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    DILEMMAS

    When Duty Calls, and Menaces

    Amid the cheers of gratitude, a painful debate is brewing as doctors grapple with whether to join the front lines of a pandemic.

    By Jodi Kantor

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    Remote locations worry about a rash of ‘crisis tourists.’

    Khara Tapay Jabola-Carolus was recently at a Target in Honolulu and noticed an influx of “crisis tourists,” people who’ve traveled from the contiguous United States to Hawaii seeking more isolation amid the coronavirus pandemic.

    By Jodi Kantor

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    A Year of Reckoning

    To move forward, we have to excavate the past.

    By Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

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    How Saying #MeToo Changed Their Lives

    Months after accusing powerful men of sexual abuse and harassment, Ashley Judd, Gwyneth Paltrow and 18 others reveal what happened afterward.

    By Melena Ryzik, Jodi Kantor, Catrin Einhorn, Emily Steel, Julia Moskin, Joe Coscarelli, Robin Pogrebin, Katie Benner, Michael Cooper, Michael Paulson, Kim Severson and Vanessa Friedman

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    Golden Globes 2018

    The New Red Carpet

    Will the Golden Globes rewrite the rules for awards seasons to come?

    By Jodi Kantor, Vanessa Friedman, Jenna Wortham and Cara Buckley

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    What the Smiles Concealed

    Some red carpet photos have become a metaphor for the difficulty of confronting or rejecting powerful men who harass or assault.

    By Jodi Kantor

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    Will Awards Season Ever Be the Same?

    Harvey Weinstein helped build the awards circuit as we know it. He will be gone from this year’s Golden Globes, but his presence, and questionable legacy, will be everywhere.

    By Jodi Kantor

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    Weinstein’s Complicity Machine

    The producer Harvey Weinstein relied on powerful relationships across industries to provide him with cover as accusations of sexual misconduct piled up for decades.

    By Megan Twohey, Jodi Kantor, Susan Dominus, Jim Rutenberg and Steve Eder

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