Jodi Kantor
American journalist and author
Jodi Kantor is an American journalist at The New York Times and won a Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for reporting on Harvey Weinstein. She wrote She Said about that investigation.
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American Born 1975 in New York City, United States
About Jodi Kantor
Jodi Kantor was born on April 21, 1975, and is an American journalist. She is a correspondent for The New York Times, where her work has covered the workplace, technology, and gender. She joined the paper in 2003 as Arts & Leisure editor. She covered two presidential campaigns and reported on Barack and Michelle Obama as they became President and First Lady. She wrote the book The Obamas. In 2018 she received a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein, and she is also the author of She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story that Helped Ignite a Movement, about that investigation. Kantor graduated from Columbia and attended Harvard Law School before moving into journalism. Time magazine included her in its 100 Most Influential People of 2018.