Remember When: The Story That Changed Everything

They had the receipts. Dozens of women. Years of silence. And two newsrooms that refused to look away.

On April 16, 2018, The New York Times and The New Yorker were jointly awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service — journalism's highest honor — for their reporting on Harvey Weinstein's decades-long pattern of sexual abuse, harassment, and assault. The reporting, led by journalists Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey, and Ronan Farrow, did what powerful institutions had spent years preventing: it put the truth on the record.

Weinstein had operated in the open, in plain sight, protected by NDAs, fixers, lawyers, and a culture of silence enforced through fear and money. He was one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, and for decades that power was a shield. More than 80 women eventually came forward. Actresses. Assistants. Aspiring filmmakers who were handed a choice no one should ever have to make.

The reporting didn't just take down one man. It ignited a global reckoning. The #MeToo movement — which had been building for years, sparked decades earlier by activist Tarana Burke — exploded into public consciousness. Across industries, in offices and studios and legislatures and newsrooms, women who had been told to stay quiet began to speak. Some were believed. Some were retaliated against. Some changed the law.

What Kantor, Twohey, and Farrow did was not just expose a predator. They demonstrated what accountability journalism looks like when it refuses to be intimidated — and what becomes possible when women's voices are finally taken at their word.

That work is never finished. The systems that protected Weinstein still exist, in different forms, in different places, protecting different men. Leading Ladies Vote believes in truth-telling, in the power of women's voices, and in the kind of accountability that begins when someone picks up a pen and refuses to be silent.