A former NBC News producer who worked on an iteration of Ronan Farrow’s Harvey Weinstein expose told the New York Times Thursday that people at “the very highest levels of NBC” work to quash the story at the network.
Rich McHugh, a producer formerly of the NBC News investigative unit, told the New York Times that he worked with Farrow on the story in the months before it was eventually published at the New Yorker, but NBC News refused the air the package.
According to McHugh, NBC was “resistant” during the eight months or so that he and Farrow worked on the story.