Emily Steel is an American business journalist who has contributed to several news publications and has covered the media industry at ''

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'' since 2014. Steel published an investigative report on Fox News Host Bill O'Reilly that may have contributed to his firing. The report may have also contributed to the #MeToo movement that began later that year.

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identified Steel as one of the 75 most influential people in American news media in 2017.

Investigative reports

Bill O'Reilly

Steel published an investigative piece in 2017 with Michael S. Schmidt about sexual misconduct and settlements by former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly called "Bill O'Reilly Settled New Harassment Claim, Then Fox Renewed His Contract". In 2018, her writing received the

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for

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along with Michael S. Schmidt,

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, and

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, and the Gerald Loeb Award for Investigative business journalism. This piece received widespread media attention and may have helped lead to O'Reilly's firing from

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. This work is portrayed in the 2022 film She Said, in which she is played by Sarah Ann Masse.

Biography

Steel was born in

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but moved to

Lincoln, Nebraska Lincoln is the capital city of the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Lancaster County. The city covers with a population of 292,657 in 2021. It is the second-most populous city in Nebraska and the 73rd-largest in the United Sta ...

and

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before she graduated from the

University of North Carolina The University of North Carolina is the multi-campus public university system for the state of North Carolina. Overseeing the state's 16 public universities and the NC School of Science and Mathematics, it is commonly referred to as the UNC Sy ...

. She lives in

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. Steel says she became interested in journalism after writing a piece in her high school newspaper about how to be happy and grateful in the wake of 9/11; she said a janitor approached her to say her piece had brightened her day, and she knew in that moment she wanted to become a writer. Steel worked at ''

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'' for 8 years, where she shared the 2011 Gerald Loeb Award for Online Enterprise business journalism for "What They Know." She worked for two years at the ''

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'' before joining ''The New York Times'' in 2014 after

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left for

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References

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