Category: sexual misconduct

Juilliard takes action following report Last fall, former IRW intern Sammy Sussman did an investigative story revealing years of sexual assault and harassment allegations dating from the 1990s and 2000s against three members of The Juilliard School’s composition faculty, including their former department chair. IRW and VAN, a leading classical music magazine, co-published the stories. That article was followed …

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Robert Beaser has been fired from his position on The Juilliard School’s composition faculty after an investigation by the law firm Potter & Murdock found Beaser had “interfered with individuals’ academic work,” engaged in “an unreported relationship” in the late 1990s and early 2000s and “repeatedly misrepresented facts about his actions,” the school announced in …

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We’re closing out 2022 with stories that have been underway for many months with several different partners and some in new areas of coverage — but all tied to our core mission of accountability.   Living with proof of pollution In June, Public Health Watch, the Investigative Reporting Workshop and Grist published a year-long investigation about …

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Update as of June 9, 2023: Juilliard fires professor, institutes new rules on relationships between faculty and students. Update as of Dec. 18: About 450 composers, musicians, educators and arts leaders signed an open letter, published on Medium, to the administration, calling on the Juilliard School to take disciplinary action against composer Robert Beaser for …

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