Peter jennings sexual harassment
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COLLEAGUE 2: When I saw that post from Mel, I thought, Thank God. I can put my stamp on this now, my anger, my sense of injustice. It enabled us to take what we were all thinking and come together again.
ARONS: We all started talking. We felt it was finally time for this story to be told. We never thought, Let’s get Mark; we talked about how the whole newsroom culture has historically encouraged and tolerated this kind of behavior. And then, individually, we started hearing from reporters. We grappled because none of us felt we could go on the record [some are still at ABC; others are in the industry or have family considerations], and yet we assumed that without women willing to use their names, the story wouldn’t get published. So we made sure the people we knew who’d been harassed were in touch with the reporters, and corroborated what we could. It was like we were this group of female journalists working tillsammans again on a story, but this time we were the story.
COLLEA • <link> <caption>According to the Sunday Mercury</caption> <url href="" platform="highweb"/> </link> , a letter written in from the Catholic Archdiocese in Birmingham to counterparts in the US said "a few months ago [Robinson] met a man with whom he had an unwholesome relationship about 13 years ago". Mr Jennings said he only knew the letter existed when the paper's reporter flagged it up to him on Friday. He said: "This is a case going right back to the s and things have moved on very significantly." Mr Jennings also said the current Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols, had worked hard to improve the way the church deals with such "historic cases". He said: "The church today has extremely kraftig policies in place so if any serious allegation is made the church immediately passes it on to the police. & • On Wednesday, five women accused political pundit and best-selling author Mark Halperin of sexual harassment while the political journalist was at ABC News. The women’s previously undisclosed accounts, which were reported by CNN, described instances of Halperin propositioning female colleagues and making unwanted sexual advances in the workplace, including grabbing three of the women’s breasts and, while clothed, pressing his erection against them. On Thursday, former ABC News journalist Emily Miller said she too was “attacked” by Halperin. In a statement to CNN, Halperin admitted to trying to “pursue relationships” with his sometimes junior female colleagues; he denied allegations of sexual assault. On Thursday, however, the Washington Post added numerous details to the allegations against Halperin, painting a more vivid picture of the political journalist’s workplace
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