• "A natural storyteller"

    Washington Post

  • "A gifted writer with a powerful intellect and a passion for the truth, Farrow has become one of this generation's finest journalists."

    Martha Raddatz, ABC News

  • "His wry voice and storytelling take work that is often grueling and dull and make it seem...vividly human."

    New York Times Book Review

  • "An indefatigable and imaginative reporter."

    Globe and Mail

  • "Farrow's greatest success was to listen, believe, and act, even at his own peril."

    Los Angeles Times

  • "Ronan Farrow has entered the pantheon of great investigative reporters. With meticulous research and endless revelations, he exposes a system of abuses and cover-ups—a system that for too long has been protected."

    David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon

  • "Ronan Farrow's reporting has changed how we understand...very powerful men."

    Rachel Maddow, MSNBC

  • "One can only marvel at Farrow's courage, his resilience and moral fiber."

    The Hollywood Reporter

  • "Ronan Farrow is the best kind of reporter: thorough, honest, and compassionate."

    James Patterson

Ronan Farrow is an investigative reporter and a contributing writer at The New Yorker. He is also currently producing documentaries for HBO.

His writing for The New Yorker has catalyzed personnel changes in the public and private sectors, reforms in law and policy, and criminal prosecutions. His stories exposed the first sexual-assault allegations against the movie producer Harvey Weinstein; CBS executives, including Les Moonves; and then New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. Farrow’s reporting about Donald Trump’s alliance with the National Enquirer figured prominently in the first criminal indictment of a U.S. President. In a series of profiles, he was among the first to identify then fugitives from the law among the January 6th rioters. His examination of the legal conservatorship of the singer Britney Spears was closely followed by resignations from her attorney and manager, and his reporting on the spyware Pegasus prompted an executive order prohibiting the U.S. government’s use of such technology.

Farrow’s work for the magazine has won the Pulitzer Prize for public service, the National Magazine Award, and the George Polk Award, among other honors. His 2025 podcast “Not a Very Good Murderer” explores his fact-checking process with a volatile source, and his 2024 HBO documentary, “Surveilled,” follows his investigations into the spyware industry. He has served as an adjunct professor at Columbia Journalism School, teaching Journalism Ethics. Farrow has worked extensively on projects about the political and economic headwinds facing the profession, including the 2022 documentary "Endangered." He previously worked as an anchor and investigative correspondent at MSNBC and NBC News. 

Farrow is the author of the New York Times best-sellers “War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence” and “Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators,” which was named one of the best books of the year by more than a dozen major outlets, nominated for a Grammy for its audiobook, and adapted into a podcast that received more than nine million downloads.

Prior to his career in journalism, Farrow served as a State Department official, first in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and then advising the Secretary of State as the director of the Department’s Office of Global Youth Issues.

Farrow is a graduate of Yale Law School and a member of the New York Bar. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He lives with his partner in New York City.

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