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Megan Twohey (/ ˈtuːi / TOO-ee) [1] is an American journalist with The New York Times. She has written investigative reports for Reuters, the Chicago Tribune, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. [2] Twohey's investigative reports have exposed exploitative doctors, revealed untested rape kits, and uncovered a secret underground network of ...
Reuters reporter Megan Twohey had discovered an underground clearinghouse of kids – a cluster of Internet bulletin boards where parents sought to get rid of children they had adopted overseas. How often was this happening, and what had become of the children?
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- Defining The Angle
- The Easons
- The Parents and The Children
- A Reporting Tip
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Before Reuters, Twohey worked for close to five years at the Chicago Tribune. During her time there, she had written a few local stories on international adoption, a relatively new phenomenon then in the early 2000s. Through her reporting, she discovered that it was a largely unregulated and unchecked process, both on the American side and abroad. ...
Twohey started where almost all modern-day stories do: Google. She read through all the news articles and posts by adoption groups she could find. It didn’t take long before she stumbled upon one of the most critical elements of the entire investigation: online forums. She found eight forums in total pertaining to international adoption. Inside, th...
Twohey decided to hone in on one forum in particular: Adopting-from-Disruption on Yahoo. Collaborating with two of her colleagues who specialize in data analysis, the team spent a month scraping through 5,029 messages posted over a five-year period. They analyzed each one and built an interactive database, both to keep track of the information and ...
It took Twohey months to track down Calvin and Nicole. She found all of their past addresses on LexisNexis and visited each one of them to little avail because the couple moved around constantly. She located the courthouses and child welfare centers in each of the jurisdictions the Easons lived in in the hopes of finding some official traces of wro...
Concurrent with her search for the Easons, Twohey also began talking to the parents who were giving away their children and the ones taking them, as well as the adopted kids themselves. She examined close to two dozen cases in detail and sought to locate the parents and the kids individually. “It was real shoe-leather reporting at this stage; just ...
Many readers expressed surprise that Nicole Eason, the families and the children were willing to talk, on record and on camera. Twohey said one reporting skill that helped her get those interviews is not to show all your cards upfront, and to save the hard questions for later. “I had this sort of strategy where I would take my time leading up to th...
It took Twohey and her team a year and a half to report and write “The Child Exchange”. It was the longest she’d ever spent on a story. Dealing with an incredibly thorny issue, enormous volumes of documents and real human beings whose lives’ were affected, it was imperative that everything was 100 percent accurate. It was also her first project at ...
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Sep 10, 2013 · An investigation by Reuters in partnership with NBC News has uncovered a vast network of adoptive parents who transfer unwanted children – often foreign adoptees – to virtual strangers they ...
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Nov 25, 2022 · The movie depicts Megan coping with postpartum depression and Jodi’s shock when her elder daughter first asks her about the word rape. These sequences expand our view of the journalists beyond...
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement is a 2019 nonfiction book written by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, two New York Times investigative reporters who exposed Harvey Weinstein's history of abuse and sexual misconduct against women, a catalyst for the burgeoning MeToo movement.
Mar 21, 2014 · Reuters investigative reporter Megan Twohey spent 18 months examining how American parents use the Internet to find new families for children they regret adopting.
