Steel and several colleagues at the New York Times investigated sexual harassment allegations against O'Reilly, and their reporting earned the paper a Pulitzer prize. The New York Times reporter was in Canada recently for a series of talks billed as Reportage as A Superpower. (Randy Potash/CBC)Those qualities helped Steel, along with fellow Times Reporter Michael Schmidt, dig into long-dormant sexual harassment accusations against O'Reilly. However, gathering evidence of the sexual harassment claims against the Fox News host was a long time in the making. New York Times journalist Emily Steel describes how she and colleague Michael Schmidt got former Fox News guest Wendy Walsh to go on the record about host Bill O'Reilly.

Source: CBC News April 29, 2018 07:52 UTC