Ronan Farrow's Biography

Ronan Farrow is an investigative reporter and a contributing writer at The New Yorker. He is also currently producing documentaries for HBO.

His writing for The New Yorker has catalyzed personnel changes in the public and private sectors, reforms in law and policy, and criminal prosecutions. His stories exposed the first sexual-assault allegations against the movie producer Harvey Weinstein; CBS executives, including Les Moonves; and then New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. Farrow’s reporting about Donald Trump’s alliance with the National Enquirer figured prominently in the first criminal indictment of a U.S. President. In a series of profiles, he was among the first to identify then fugitives from the law among the January 6th rioters. His examination of the legal conservatorship of the singer Britney Spears was closely followed by resignations from her attorney and manager, and his reporting on the spyware Pegasus prompted an executive order prohibiting the U.S. government’s use of such technology.

Farrow’s work for the magazine has won the Pulitzer Prize for public service, the National Magazine Award, and the George Polk Award, among other honors. His 2025 podcast Not a Very Good Murderer explores his fact-checking process with a volatile source, and his 2024 HBO documentary, Surveilled, follows his investigations into the spyware industry. He has served as an adjunct professor at Columbia Journalism School, teaching Journalism Ethics. Farrow has worked extensively on projects about the political and economic headwinds facing the profession, including the 2022 documentary Endangered. He previously worked as an anchor and investigative correspondent at MSNBC and NBC News.

Farrow is the author of the New York Times best-sellers War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence and Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, which was named one of the best books of the year by more than a dozen major outlets, nominated for a Grammy for its audiobook, and adapted into a podcast that received more than nine million downloads.

Prior to his career in journalism, Farrow served as a State Department official, first in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and then advising the Secretary of State as the director of the Department’s Office of Global Youth Issues.

Farrow is a graduate of Yale Law School and a member of the New York Bar. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He lives with his partner in New York City.

Joy-Ann Reid's Biography

Joy-Ann Reid was a longtime political analyst at MS NOW (formerly MSNBC) and former host of beloved show "The ReidOut." She is the author of four books: #1 New York Times bestseller Medgar and Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America, Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons and the Racial Divide, We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama, which she co-edited with Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, and The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story, which spent four weeks on the New York Times best-sellers list. Reid also co-hosts a podcast: Reid This-Reid That with veteran TV journalist Jacque Reid. She has worked in local and national TV news, as a talk radio producer and co-host, and as a press secretary during two presidential campaigns, including for Barack Obama's campaign in Florida in 2008. Her columns have appeared in multiple outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Miami Herald, New York Magazine, and The Daily Beast.

Reid graduated from Harvard University in 1991 and was a 2003 Knight Center for Advanced Journalism fellow. She has received media awards from The Newswoman's Club of New York for the Front Page Award for Lifetime Achievement, Women’s Media Center, the National Action Network and the National Association of Black Journalists, and her work has been nominated for an Emmy Award, a GLAAD Media Award, and two NAACP Image Awards.