This archive report was first published on 26 October 2019.
On October 26, 2019, NBCUniversal announced that it would release former employees from any perceived obligation to stay silent about sexual harassment at the network.
This move comes after Ronan Farrow's reporting on the topic, which included an article published in The New Yorker in 2017 that won a Pulitzer Prize and helped trigger a massive social and cultural reckoning.
MSNBC prime-time host Rachel Maddow praised the move, saying that NBCUniversal executives deserve praise for the decision.
Chris Hayes, another MSNBC prime-time host, had previously praised Farrow's reporting, calling it 'the kind of journalism that you want to do as a journalist, that everyone who works in this business should want to facilitate.'
Farrow's reporting on the topic has been the subject of controversy, including a 2017 interview with Maddow in which he discussed why he had not reported his story for NBC.
