Rebecca Corbett, investigations editor at the New York Times and a longtime Baltimorean, has been at the center of some of the most consequential journalism of the last couple of decades. She is revered by colleagues for her standards, her work ethic and her intellectual rigor, but like many editors who never receive a byline, her name had long been hidden from view.
That first changed about a decade ago, when the New York Times named Corbett to the masthead, a recognition of her importance to the organization. Any remaining anonymity was shattered in 2019 with the publication of ‘She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement’ by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the Times reporters who were the writers on the powerful stories that exposed Harvey Weinstein’s predatory behavior and garnered a Pulitzer Prize. Corbett’s role as a collaborative and exacting editor was a key feature of the book, and also in the movie version that came out last year, with actor Patricia Clarkson cast as Corbett.
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