How the Washington Post Got Rape Reporting Right

By: Marin Cogan | New York Magazine

Last month, the Washington Post made what was, for a newspaper anyway, an unusual decision: They would publish Barbara Bowman’s rape allegations against Bill Cosby in a first-person essay, despite the fact that Bowman had never pressed charges. When reporters outside the paper started asking about their decision, executive editor Marty Baron drafted a long statement defending their choice.