because of NBCs failure to hire outside investigators to look into workplace issues at the company. Following the firing of Today show host Matt Lauer in November for an inappropriate relationship, parent company NBC Universal directed its in-house counsel, Kimberley Harris, to investigate.
Farrow worked on for several months with Rich McHugh, a producer in the investigative unit at NBC News, went through rounds of vetting within NBC including with Kimberley Harris, NBC Universals general counsel, according to two people familiar with his reporting who were not authorized to speak