Longreads Best of 2017: Investigative Reporting on Sexual Misconduct

It was a year in which investigations loomed over us as we woke up each day and absorbed the news.

这一年，当我们每天醒来并吸收新闻时，调查就在我们身边。

Former FBI director Robert Mueller began investigating whether Donald Trump’s presidential campaign had any links to the Russian government and its efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election.

前联邦调查局局长罗伯特·穆勒开始调查唐纳德·特朗普的总统竞选活动是否与俄罗斯政府及其干预 2016 年总统选举的行为有任何联系。

The opioid crisis was covered by a few outlets wondering who, exactly, is profiting while countless people are dying.

一些媒体报道了阿片类药物危机，他们想知道在无数人死亡的同时，到底谁在获利。

But it is the investigations into sexual misconduct perpetrated by powerful men across several industries that has had the most significant impact in 2017.

但 2017 年影响最大的却是对多个行业有权势男性实施不当性行为的调查。

And much of the reporting has been led by The New York Times.

大部分报道都是由《纽约时报》主导的。

In early January, Times journalists Emily Steel and Michael S.

一月初，《泰晤士报》记者 Emily Steel 和 Michael S.

Schmidt reported that Fox News had spent millions of dollars to settle sexual harassment allegations against Bill O’Reilly.

施密特报道称，福克斯新闻已花费数百万美元来解决针对比尔·奥莱利的性骚扰指控。

By April, the two reporters began publishing stories on a near-daily basis: O’Reilly continued to thrive at Fox News despite five women coming forward with allegations against him; advertisers announced they were withdrawing their ads from O’Reilly’s show because of the Times reports; President Trump defended O’Reilly and was immediately criticized; 21st Century Fox enlisted a law firm to investigate a harassment claim against O’Reilly.

到了四月，这两位记者开始几乎每天都发表报道：尽管有五名女性站出来指控奥莱利，但奥莱利继续在福克斯新闻中蓬勃发展；由于《泰晤士报》的报道，广告商宣布从奥莱利的节目中撤回广告；特朗普总统为奥莱利辩护，立即遭到批评； 21 世纪福克斯聘请了一家律师事务所来调查针对奥莱利的骚扰指控。

In the third week of April, after all this rigorous reporting, O’Reilly was finally forced out at Fox News.

四月的第三周，经过所有这些严格的报道，奥莱利终于被福克斯新闻频道驱逐了。

O’Reilly’s fall was a catalyst for a long-needed house cleaning at the media corporation.

奥莱利的倒台促使媒体公司进行了长期需要的内部清理。

In May, the Times reported that Fox News co-president Bill Shine was also forced out, accused in several lawsuits of covering up the scandals at the network and dismissing concerns from women who spoke out.

5 月，《泰晤士报》报道称，福克斯新闻联合总裁比尔·夏恩 (Bill Shine) 也被迫离职，他在几起诉讼中被指控掩盖该电视台的丑闻并忽视了直言不讳的女性的担忧。

A shift appeared to be transpiring: Institutions that had customarily protected their own interests by insulating men in power and enabling their abusive behavior began taking allegations more seriously (and it is important to note here, with clear evidence from the settlements that have been made public, that it’s not that women haven’t come forward to report abuse in the past, but that their concerns have been routinely shrugged off, and that they’ve been silenced).

一种转变似乎正在发生：那些习惯上通过隔离当权男性并纵容他们的虐待行为来保护自身利益的机构开始更加认真地对待指控（这里值得注意的是，有来自已公开的和解的明确证据，这并不是说妇女过去没有站出来报告虐待行为，而是她们的担忧经常被忽视，并且她们已经被压制住了）。

Emily Steel’s tireless reporting continued: In July, with her colleague Kevin Draper, the Times reported that Jamie Horowitz, head of sports programming at Fox Sports, was fired amid an investigation into sexual harassment.

艾米丽·斯蒂尔 (Emily Steel) 孜孜不倦的报道仍在继续：7 月，《泰晤士报》与她的同事凯文·德雷珀 (Kevin Draper) 报道称，福克斯体育频道 (Fox Sports) 体育节目主管杰米·霍洛维茨 (Jamie Horowitz) 在性骚扰调查中被解雇。

In August, the Huffington Post reported that longtime Fox News host Eric Bolling sent unsolicited lewd photos to colleagues at Fox Business.

八月，《赫芬顿邮报》报道称，福克斯新闻的长期主持人埃里克·博林主动向福克斯商业频道的同事发送了淫秽照片。

In September Fox parted ways with him.

九月，福克斯与他分道扬镳。

October brought Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s blockbuster story detailing the decades worth of allegations against Harvey Weinstein, and Ronan Farrow’s 10-month investigation that included harrowing accounts from 13 women alleging sexual harassment and assault against Weinstein followed on The New Yorker shortly thereafter.

10 月，乔迪·坎特 (Jodi Kantor) 和梅根·图伊 (Megan Twohey) 发表了轰动一时的报道，详细介绍了哈维·韦恩斯坦 (Harvey Weinstein) 长达数十年的指控，随后不久，《纽约客》(The New Yorker) 也刊登了罗南·法罗 (Ronan Farrow) 为期 10 个月的调查，其中包括 13 名指控韦恩斯坦性骚扰和性侵犯的女性的令人痛心的报道。

In response, the board of the Weinstein Company fired him, while women continued to come forward to share their own experiences.

作为回应，韦恩斯坦公司董事会解雇了他，而女性则继续站出来分享她们自己的经历。

If O’Reilly’s downfall had been a catalyst for this moment, Weinstein’s was a reckoning.

如果说奥莱利的垮台是这一刻的催化剂，那么韦恩斯坦的垮台就是一场清算。

Weinstein’s horrific behavior was said to be a long-time open secret in Hollywood, and we’d later learn in a stunning story from Kantor, Twohey, and their colleagues Susan Dominus, Jim Rutenberg, and Steve Eder, that Weinstein protected himself from abuse allegations by building relationships with prominent politicians, talent agencies, and media companies to provide him with cover and by threatening the careers of anyone who spoke out against him.

韦恩斯坦的可怕行为据说是好莱坞长期以来公开的秘密，后来我们从坎特、图伊和他们的同事苏珊·多米纳斯、吉姆·鲁滕伯格和史蒂夫·埃德尔的令人震惊的故事中得知，韦恩斯坦通过与著名政客、人才经纪公司和媒体公司建立关系来为他提供掩护，并威胁任何公开反对他的人的职业生涯，从而保护自己免受虐待指控。

Weinstein finally facing consequences for his actions was a signal and a rallying cry for victims of abuse.

韦恩斯坦最终面临其行为的后果，这对虐待受害者来说是一个信号和战斗口号。

The hashtag #MeToo went viral on social media, encouraging women to share their experiences.

#MeToo 标签在社交媒体上疯传，鼓励女性分享她们的经历。

Bad Men could no longer rely on institutions to protect them.

坏人不能再依靠机构来保护他们。

The reckoning had come.

清算已经到来。

Below is a (comprehensive, but not complete) list of men who have been accused of sexual misconduct, and the reporters and news outlets who broke the news and helped brave victims tell their stories:

以下是被指控性行为不端的男性（全面但不完整）的名单，以及爆料这一消息并帮助勇敢的受害者讲述他们故事的记者和新闻媒体：