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Compelling, ambitious reads you can’t afford to miss. When media reporter Sarah Ellison arrived at The Post in January, she'd already written a long piece at Vanity Fair magazine about Matt Lauer's power at NBC as well as covered his November firing for sexual misconduct. Now she wanted to tackle something more ambitious. "What I was trying to figure out," she said, "was why didn't people feel they could come forward." As she reported the story over the next three months, she interviewed three dozen people about the workplace environment at NBC, discovering what she described as "a pattern of more powerful men seeking relationships with younger women." It was challenging reporting, even amid the #MeToo movement.  "I was surprised at how difficult it was to get women to talk about it," said Ellison, who is based in New York and worked on the story with Style editor Richard Leiby. She was careful not to pressure anyone. ...

Bill Cosby’s conviction is a watershed. It also shows how hard it is to hold alleged abusers accountable. Bill Cosby found guilty in sexual assault trial BY JAMES HOHMANN with Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve THE BIG IDEA: The cold hand of justice finally caught up with Bill Cosby. The 80-year-old comedian could receive as many as 30 years for the three counts of sexual assault he  was convicted of Thursday  in Pennsylvania, which would be tantamount to a life sentence. This is a watershed moment that represents one of the biggest downfalls in entertainment history. The onetime Jell-O pitchman, who made Dr. Cliff Huxtable so endearing on “The Cosby Show,” was a pioneer to the last generation and became a villain to this one. It was a retrial. Last summer, the jury hung after six days of deliberations. This time, a jury of seven men and five women took less than two days to convict. In between then and now,...