NPR Executive Was Warned Repeatedly About Sexual Harassment, Report Finds<br />Oreskes committed to Mr. Hart that it would not happen again.”<br />But in the spring of 2016, Mr. Oreskes expensed several dinners with women, including one with a female NPR employee, the report found.<br />Shortly after, an NPR employee said Mr. Oreskes had made an inappropriate comment in 2016 during a conversation about her career,<br />and had invited her to his beach cottage to “continue the conversation over wine,” the report found.<br />“The past months have shown that sexual harassment is a serious, widespread problem,<br />pervasive in every industry and many organizations; NPR is no exception.”<br />The report said that some NPR employees had been warned about Mr. Oreskes’s behavior,<br />but the knowledge stayed within a “whisper network” that didn’t extend outside the newsroom.<br />In the summer of 2015, two female NPR employees said they had dinners with Mr. Oreskes that turned excessively personal, the report found.<br />The report by the law firm Morgan Lewis, which was hired by NPR, said<br />that Mr. Oreskes repeatedly expensed meals with young female employees, ostensibly to discuss their careers, but that the conversations often veered into sexual and other personal territory.<br />“While management made multiple attempts to counsel Mr. Oreskes about his conduct, he was not deterred from pursuing conversations and dinner meetings with women inside and outside of NPR<br />that were inappropriate and served a nonbusiness purpose,” the report said.
