Networks ‘aggressively pursuing’ Ronan Farrow: report

ABC, CNN and CBS are “aggressively pursuing” Ronan Farrow following the former MSNBC host’s explosive report in The New Yorker on former media mogul Harvey Weinstein, according to the New York Post.

“All of the major news networks are interested in signing Ronan,” the Post reported on Tuesday. “His reporting brought down a giant and changed the worldwide conversation about sexual harassment.”

{mosads}The 29-year-old son of actress Mia Farrow and producer Woody Allen shot into the spotlight two weeks ago after his story detailing multiple allegations of sexual harassment and assault against Weinstein was published. The exclusive included a New York Police Department audio tape of Weinstein confessing to groping an Italian model and numerous interviews with Weinstein accusers.

NBC had passed on the story over the summer, stating Farrow didn’t have enough hard material at the time to publish.

“I walked into the door at The New Yorker with an explosive, reportable piece that should have been public earlier,” Farrow told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Oct. 9. “And immediately, obviously, The New Yorker recognized that, and it is not accurate to say that it was not reportable.” 

“In fact, there were multiple determinations that it was reportable at NBC,” he added.

NBC News President Noah Oppenheim called the notion that the network would try to cover for Weinstein “deeply offensive,” adding that it didn’t feel Farrow had enough evidence to go ahead with the story.

“The notion that we would try to cover for a powerful person is deeply offensive to all of us … we didn’t feel we had all the elements that we needed to air it,” Oppenheim said in a statement.

Farrow hosted an afternoon program for MSNBC that launched in February of 2014 but was cancelled one year later.

He was kept on as a freelancer after his contract with NBC and MSNBC expired over the summer.