The left-wing journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner, Wesley Lowery, was accused of sexually assaulting several journalists

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Wesley Lowery was accused last Wednesday of regular and sexually assaulting several of his female colleagues. According to a report by the Columbia Journalism Review, several journalists claimed that the famous left-wing reporter would get them drunk in bars until they would leave with him and eventually be sexually assaulted. The medium detailed that the reported encounters would have been numerous and would have taken place between 2018 and 2024.

The current editor-in-chief of the Texan media The Barbed Wire, Olivia Messer, told the magazine that during an encounter in a bar with Lowery in 2020, the reporter pressured her to perform oral sex on him in his apartment, to which she refused. Messer detailed that three years later, at a time when Lowery had a supervisory position over her, they conversed for a while until she lost consciousness and awoke the next morning with him in her bed. The editor-in-chief noted that while she did not recall having relations with the leftist journalist, he assured her that they did.

Lowery's response

Another journalist who also revealed to the magazine that she had been victimized by Lowery was Imani Moise, of the Wall Street Journal, who recounted that in 2018 she had a couple of drinks with the reporter in a Washington, D. C. bar, until she was "drunk and disoriented." Moise noted that at that point Lowery hailed a cab to take her to his apartment, where, in her own words, he sexually assaulted her "full-on". The Journal journalist commented that the most ironic thing about the incident was that one of the topics they talked about most during their meeting at the bar in the U.S. capital was precisely the #MeToo movement.

In the magazine article, other journalists and even journalism students claimed to have been sexually abused by Lowery, having as a common denominator in each of the cases the use of alcoholic beverages by the leftist reporter. Lowery, who has worked in renowned media outlets such as The Washington Post and CNN, issued a statement commenting on the allegations, in which he said: "CJR’s portrayal of these periods in my personal life is incomplete and includes false insinuations about complicated dynamics. Still, I respect the women who have shared their experiences and take their perspectives seriously. As a young professional, I did not always recognize the power imbalances that surfaced as personal relationships evolved into professional ones, and vice versa. I should have better upheld boundaries that would have protected myself and others, particularly during interactions impaired by mutual intoxication. I have committed to sobriety, now approaching one year, and continue to work with professionals on my understanding of the power dynamics that accompany race, gender, and my professional success."