Swordsmyth
12-03-2017, 11:18 PM
Longtime NPR host John Hockenberry has been accused of sexual harassment by women he worked with while hosting The Takeaway.
Author Suki Kim took it upon herself to do some investigative reporting of her own (https://www.thecut.com/2017/12/public-radio-icon-john-hockenberry-accused-of-harassment.html) after her own experience with Hockenberry as a guest of his show in 2014. In the story she wrote for The Cut, she explains how she went from dismissing her interactions with the host to interviewing other women with the same experiences. At first, she believed the harassment she experienced might be an anomaly. "It took only a few phone calls before I found out that it wasn’t," wrote Kim. While each report of sexual harassment and assault comes as a shock to the general public, Kim writes that for the women she interviewed, it was just a matter of time.
Kim categorizes the claims of the women she spoke to into two categories: low- to mid-level producers, assistants, and interns who received unwelcome sexual overtures and women of color of co-hosted The Takeaway who felt bullied and undermined by Hockenberry. Two themes persisted as multiple women reported him forcibly kissing them as well as inappropriate exchanges over social media.
More at: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/longtime-npr-host-author-john-181500427.html
Author Suki Kim took it upon herself to do some investigative reporting of her own (https://www.thecut.com/2017/12/public-radio-icon-john-hockenberry-accused-of-harassment.html) after her own experience with Hockenberry as a guest of his show in 2014. In the story she wrote for The Cut, she explains how she went from dismissing her interactions with the host to interviewing other women with the same experiences. At first, she believed the harassment she experienced might be an anomaly. "It took only a few phone calls before I found out that it wasn’t," wrote Kim. While each report of sexual harassment and assault comes as a shock to the general public, Kim writes that for the women she interviewed, it was just a matter of time.
Kim categorizes the claims of the women she spoke to into two categories: low- to mid-level producers, assistants, and interns who received unwelcome sexual overtures and women of color of co-hosted The Takeaway who felt bullied and undermined by Hockenberry. Two themes persisted as multiple women reported him forcibly kissing them as well as inappropriate exchanges over social media.
More at: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/longtime-npr-host-author-john-181500427.html