i'm sarah montague. thejournalist welcome to hardtalk. i'm sarah montague. the journalist ronan farrow won a pulitzer prize for his investigation of harvey weinstein. his revelations about the film producer prompted an outpouring of rage at the way women had been treated and triggered the metoo movement, an attempt at breaking the silence around sexual assault. in his new book catch and kill, he is posing difficult questions about the powerful media institutions he says tried to suppress the story. so how did the hollywood insider, the son of woody allen and mia farrow, broke the story that took the shine off tinseltown? ronan farrow, welcome to

i'm sarah montague. journalist ronan farrow won a pulitzer prize for his investigation of harvey weinstein. his revelations about the film producer prompted an outpouring of rage at the way women had been treated and triggered the metoo movement — an attempt at breaking the silence around sexual assault. in his new book catch and kill, he's posing difficult questions about the powerful media institutions he says tried to suppress the story. so how did the hollywood insider, the son of mia farrow and woody allen, break the story that took the shine off tinseltown? ronan farrow, welcome to hardtalk. good to be here. now, many people won't be familiar with the expression catch and kill. can you explain what it means? catch and kill is an old term in american tabloid journalism. it refers to buying the rights to a story not to publish it, but to bury it — sometimes at the behest of a powerful person. it is used both metaphorically, in the plot that unravels in this book — because this book is about circles o