Megan Twohey is a prize-winning investigative reporter for The New York Times who has focused much of her attention on the treatment of women and children.

Before she and Jodi Kantor broke the story of Harvey Weinstein's decades of alleged abuse towards women, Twohey told the stories of women who accused Donald J. Trump of sexual misconduct. She uncovered an underground network where parents gave away adopted children they no longer wanted to strangers met on the Internet. Known as private re-homing, the illicit practice took place with no government oversight and at great risk to children. “The Child Exchange” series was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and won the Edgar A. Poe Award of the White House Correspondents Association, among other prizes. It prompted states to pass new laws to protect children. Two of the main subjects were sent to prison.

While reporting in Chicago, she exposed how police and prosecutors were shelving DNA evidence collected after sex crimes, robbing victims of the chance for justice. In response to her stories, Illinois passed the first state law mandating the testing of every rape kit. Twohey's other investigations brought about separate legal protections --- for victims of stalking, domestic violence and sex-abusing doctors. 

Twohey is a contributor to NBC and MSNBC. A native of Evanston, Illinois, she lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.

Books by Megan Twohey

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey - Memoir, Nonfiction

For years, reporters had tried to get to the truth about Harvey Weinstein’s treatment of women. Rumors of wrongdoing had long circulated, and in 2017, when Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey began their investigation for the New York Times, his name was still synonymous with power. But during months of confidential interviews with actresses, former Weinstein employees and other sources, many disturbing and long-buried allegations were unearthed, and a web of onerous secret payouts and nondisclosure agreements was revealed. When Kantor and Twohey were finally able to convince sources to go on the record, a dramatic final showdown between Weinstein and the New York Times was set in motion.